By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke, and Tanya Moodie have boarded the solid of “Empire of Light”, a romantic drama directed by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes.
The film, which is about in and round a gorgeous previous cinema on the South Coast of England within the Nineteen Eighties, marks Mendes’ first solo outing as a screenwriter.
The quartet of powerhouse performers joins beforehand introduced solid members Academy Award winner Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward within the movie, reported Deadline.
“Empire of Light”, a Searchlight Pictures title, marks Mendes’ follow-up to his 2020 finest image nominee conflict drama “1917”.
For his subsequent movie, the filmmaker is as soon as once more collaborating with legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, who gained an Oscar for finest cinematography on the 2020 Academy Awards for his work on “1917”.
Mendes can even produce the venture by means of his Neal Street Productions together with Pippa Harris.
Colin, a double Oscar winner, lately starred reverse Colman in Eva Husson’s Sony Pictures Classics drama “Mothering Sunday”.
Jones will subsequent seem in Jon S Baird’s historic drama “Tetris”, Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” and the fifth as but untitled “Indiana Jones” movie.
Clarke lately wrapped filming on the second and third collection of Masterpiece’s “Sanditon” and can subsequent be seen in Sean McNamara’s fantasy function “The King’s Daughter”.
Moodie presently stars in “A Discovery of Witches”, a Sky Original collection.
