Cosmo Jarvis, star of FX’s smash hit series “Sh?gun,” will star as future Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in “Young Stalin.” Géla Babluani (“13 Tzameti,” “Money”) has signed on to direct the period thriller that is being financed by Len Blavatnik‘s Access Entertainment, which backed Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and last year’s “Conclave.” Based on the acclaimed bestseller by Simon Sebag Montefiore, “Young Stalin” charts the early days of the Soviet strongman when he was a bank-robbing gangster in pre-revolutionary Russia. Babluani and Sebag Montefiore wrote the screenplay for the film that is also being backed...