By Express News Service
Small Axe-fame Micheal Ward will star reverse Oscar winner Olivia Colman in British filmmaker Sam Mendes’ upcoming function Empire of Light.
Ward, a Jamaican-born British actor, is known for starring in Lovers Rock, which is the second a part of Steve McQueen’s highly-acclaimed anthology film sequence Small Axe.
Produced by Searchlight Pictures, Empire of Light is a romantic drama set in and across the South Coast of England within the Nineteen Eighties. The movie marks Mendes’ first solo outing as a screenwriter.
The filmmaker, identified for critically-acclaimed motion pictures similar to American Beauty, Skyfall and Revolutionary Road, had penned his most up-to-date movie, battle drama 1917, with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
For Empire of Light, Mendes is as soon as once more collaborating with legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, who received an Oscar for greatest cinematography on the 2020 Academy Awards for his work on 1917.
The filmmaker will even produce the challenge by way of his Neal Street Productions together with Pippa Harris. Ward is at the moment busy with the second season of his hit Netflix sequence Top Boy. He will even function within the streaming platform’s upcoming movie Beauty, co-starring Giancarlo Esposito and Sharon Stone.
