Filmmaker Bryan Singer has quietly directed a brand new film starring Jon Voight. It marks Singer’s first time within the director’s chair since he was fired from the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody and his profession was largerly derailed by accusations of sexual misconduct.
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, the movie, which is at present untitled, is described as “a father-son story set amid the backdrop of the Israel occupation of Lebanon within the ’70s or ’80s.”
Singer made his title with high-profile field workplace productions, together with the X-Males franchise, Superman Returns, and the Academy Award-winning The Common Suspects. In 2017, whereas directing Bohemian Rhapsody amid chaotic circumstances and repeated absences from set, Singer was fired from the manufacturing, which was in the end accomplished by filmmaker Dexter Fletcher. Nonetheless, Singer’s title remained on the venture, which went on to gross greater than $910 million worldwide and win 4 Oscars.
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He later secured the directing job for Pink Sonja, however the venture additionally fell by way of after he was hit with a number of accusations of sexual misconduct with minors. Singer was ultimately changed by Jill Soloway earlier than the movie was shelved indefinitely.
Outspoken conservative Voight, who was forged by Francis Ford Coppola in Megalopolis partly as a result of he didn’t need it to be a “woke Hollywood manufacturing,” was appointed by Donald Trump as a “Particular Ambassador” to Hollywood earlier this 12 months alongside Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson.