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"Vincent Cassel has joined Child 44. The Trance star will replace the previously attached Philip Seymour Hoffman, reports Deadline.   Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Jason Clarke are also starring in Daniel Espinosa&amp;#039;s adaptation of Tom Rob Smith&amp;#039;s award-winning 2008 novel. Hardy will star as Soviet military police officer Leo Stepanovich Demidov, who becomes a government target while investigating a series of child murders. Cassel will also star in Ariel Kleiman&amp;#039;s debut feature Partisana. He is best known for his roles in Black Swan, Mesrine and Ocean&amp;#039;s Twelve and Thirteen. Filming is currently under way on Child 44, which is due to be released in 2014. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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