When Aaron Sorkin, Steven Soderbergh, Scott Cooper and Denis Villeneuve are looking to cast their films, they turn to casting director Francine Maisler . This year alone, Maisler has worked on “ Sinners ,” “The Lost Bus,” “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” and the upcoming “Ella McCay.”

Maisler reveals she’s working around the clock on multiple projects. That includes Tom Ford’s much anticipated third movie.

“He’s in London and he’s my first call at 6:30 in the morning,” she tells Variety ‘s Awards Circuit Podcast . “We work around the clock because it’s him. We collaborate on every single thing.”

Variety reached out to Ford’s rep, Simon Halls, who says, “The project is still in early development stages.”

Maisler teases, “It’s going to be this epic, incredible movie that y

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