David Wenham and Stephen Graham have joined the cast of Universal’s “Public Enemies,” Michael Mann’s gangster film starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.

An adaptation of Brian Burrough’s book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-43,” the film centers on the government’s attempt to stop John Dillinger and his gang. Depp is playing Dillinger to Bale’s famed FBI agent Melvin Purvis.

Wenham is playing Pete Pierpont, a member of Dillinger’s crew who has a violent hostility to all authority. British actor Graham will portray Baby Face Nelson.Also in the cast are Marion Cotillard, Channing Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi and Stephen Dorff.

Wenham recently finished production on Baz Luhrmann’s “Australia,” opposite Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, for 20th Century Fox. He also appeared in the “Lord of the Rings” movies and “300.” He is repped by Endeavor, Artists-Independent Management in the U.S. and Shanahan Management in Australia.

Graham (“This Is England”) is repped by Kritzer Levine Wilkins Entertainment and in the U.K. by Independent Talent Group.

Source: Hollywood Reporter