The producer and director behind many traditional episodes of “Atlanta,” “The Bear,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Station Eleven,” and extra is lastly making a film.
Hiro Murai, the Emmy-winning producer and director, is ready to make his function directorial debut on “Bushido,” a samurai movie and epic that will probably be arrange at A24, a person with data of the mission informed IndieWire. A24 is financing and producing.
“Bushido” is alleged to be an motion movie set throughout Feudal Japan, however particular plot particulars are being stored underneath wraps.
Murai is directing the movie from a script by Henry Dunham (“The Standoff at Sparrow Creek”), and he and Dunham can even produce together with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen for his or her Sq. Peg banner and Julia Oh, Christine D’Souza Gelb, and David Hinojosa for his or her 2AM banner.
Whereas it’s unclear concerning the price range on the movie, a interval movie that’s action-heavy like “Bushido” is probably going one other step up within the scope of what A24 has been taking over of late, with “Civil Battle” most just lately its most costly function mission to this point.
Murai for years has been one of many extra in-demand episodic and music video administrators. Technically, he directed the 55-minute “Guava Island” movie for Infantile Gambino again in 2019, however “Bushido” will probably be his first theatrical, narrative, full-length function. His most well-known music video is Infantile Gambino’s “This Is America,” however he’s additionally directed movies for Earl Sweatshirt, Queens of the Stone Age, Spoon, Usher, Enrique Iglesias, and The Shins, to call a couple of.
A few of his different episodic credit as a director embody stints on “Legion,” “Barry,” and “Snowfall.” Up subsequent he’s directing and producing a number of episodes of a collection created by Katie Dippold, “Widow’s Bay.” He received his Emmy as an EP on “The Bear” when it received Finest Comedy Sequence. In 2020, his firm Tremendous Fog Productions signed a first-look TV cope with FX.
The movie can be a reunion between A24 and each Sq. Peg and 2AM, the previous of which is making Aster’s upcoming “Eddington” and “Demise of a Unicorne,” and the latter of which is making Celine Music’s subsequent movie “Materialists.”
Murai is represented by Grandview, UTA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Dunham is represented by Nameless Content material and lawyer Stephen Clark of Lichter, Grossman, Nichols.
Deadline first reported the information.