Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig Eye Broadway Run in A Steady Rain

Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig together on Broadway? That’s the big news for fall, according to The New York Post. The Tony Award winner who plays Wolverine plans to team up with the man who plays James Bond in Keith Huff’s drama A Steady Rain. Barbara Broccoli, keeper of the James Bond franchise, will produce the play at a theater to be named.

According to a synopsis by Chicago Dramatists, where the play was produced in the fall of 2007, A Steady Rain centers on two Chicago policemen, lifelong friends, and their differing accounts of a few harrowing days that changed their lives forever. During a routine domestic disturbance call, the policemen return a panic-stricken Vietnamese boy to a man claiming to be the boy’s uncle. When the man is revealed to be a cannibalistic serial killer and the boy his latest victim, the men’s friendship is put to the test when one of them has to take the fall.

Jackman won the 2004 Best Actor Tony for his performance as Peter Allen in the musical The Boy from Oz and starred in the London production of Oklahoma! and in numerous musicals in his home country of Australia. The star of the current feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Jackman has appeared in three X-Men movies as well as Australia, Deception, The Prestige, Van Helsing and many more. He hosted the 2009 Academy Awards ceremony and has hosted the Tony Awards twice. 

Craig began his career in Britain’s National Youth Theatre and made his stage debut as Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida. He toured Europe with the company before entering Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican. In addition to starring in the two most recent James Bond films Quantum of Solace and Casino Royale, he has appeared in films such as Defiance, The Golden Compass, Munich, Layer Cake and Road to Perdition.