Kuruthi star Joju George will not be appearing in Thalapathy Vijay's Leo

The recent reports claiming that National Award-winning Malayalam actor Joju George joining the cast of director Lokesh Kanagaraj's Leo is not true.

A source close to the actor has denied the report stating that the actor is currently busy with another project and won't be sharing the screen with Vijay.

Leo is directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and will be the third installment in the LCU following 2019's Kaithi which starred Karthi and 2022s Vikram which starred Kamal Haasan in the lead.

The movie is produced by S. S. Lalit Kumar and Jagadish Palanisamy under the banner Seven Screen Studio and reportedly has a budget of 300 crores.

The visual effects for the movie will be handled by Moving Picture Company, which has worked on Oscar-nominated Hollywood movies like Blade Runner 2049 and 1917.

Making Leo the third Indian movie the studio has worked on after the Telugu blockbuster RRR and the Bollywood horror-comedy Bhediya.

According to a new report Vijay's upcoming action entertainer Leo is expected to break the international records set by his first movie of 2023 Varisu.

Varisu earned a total of 314 crores at the box office this year making it the highest-grossing Vijay movie of all time and this has encouraged foreign companies to offer around 70 crores for the distribution rights for Leo.

There has been a lot of speculation about the plot of the movie and there is a rumor that the movie has a similar plot to the 2005 Hollywood action movie 'A History of Violence'.

In which a family man is forced to confront this violent past after he encounters someone from his old life as a gangster.

The full cast of the movie includes Vijay, Trisha, Arjun, Sanjay Dutt, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mysskin, Mansoor Ali Khan, Priya Anand, Manobala, and Janany Kunaseelan.

Leo will hit theaters worldwide on 20 October 2023.