Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Nightmare Alley’ Wraps Production with Cooper, Blanchett, Mara, and More

Production has wrapped on Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley,” the upcoming psychological thriller film led by a starry ensemble including Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, and Ron Perlman.

While Disney-owned distributor Searchlight Pictures has yet to reveal a release date, the film’s co-screenwriter Kim Morgan (writing with Del Toro) revealed the end of the film’s production on Instagram Saturday.

Independently, Guillermo del Toro confirmed that shooting was completed to IndieWire.

(See Morgan’s post below.)Production was suspended on March 13 due to the pandemic, but resumed safely in September.

The film shot mainly in Toronto.

Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham, the film centers on an ambitious young carny (Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words.

He hooks-up with a female psychiatrist (Blanchett) who, it turns out, is even more dangerous than he is.

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