Oscar winner Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in negotiations to star within the subsequent movie from director Damien Chazelle, a person with information of the undertaking advised IndieWire.
The movie is untitled, and whereas the “La La Land” and “Whiplash” filmmaker has weighed choices similar to an Evel Knievel biopic, a number of media studies say Chazelle’s follow-up to “Babylon” is a jail drama. Leonardo DiCaprio had been circling the Knievel movie, however a deal didn’t shut.
Paramount Footage is distributing the following Chazelle characteristic as a part of his take care of the studio. Chazelle wrote and can produce the film beneath his banner Wild Chickens Productions alongside Olivia Hamilton.
Chazelle’s “Babylon” from 2022 bombed on the field workplace however was an bold Previous Hollywood epic starring Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt. With an $80 million finances and three+ hour runtime, the movie fizzled with simply $65.2 million worldwide. However Chazelle can proceed to demand A-list casts and presumably the finances that goes together with it.
Murphy since successful the Oscar for “Oppenheimer” was seen within the drama “Small Issues Like These,” and his first undertaking he took on after successful the Oscar was the “Peaky Blinders” follow-up “The Immortal Man.” The Chazelle movie represents his first unique undertaking since his Greatest Actor flip.
Craig was most lately seen in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” and can subsequent be seen reuniting with Rian Johnson on the third “Knives Out” movie, “Wake Up Useless Man.” He’s additionally reportedly been within the combine for Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia” film.
Deadline first reported the information.
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