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  • Steve McQueen to direct thriller ‘Blitz’ for New Regency

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Steve McQueen has discovered his subsequent directorial undertaking in thriller “Blitz”.

    The film has been arrange at Hollywood studio New Regency and can begin manufacturing in 2022, reported Variety.

    McQueen and New Regency beforehand partnered on his Oscar-winning characteristic “12 Years a Slave” and “Widows”.

    “Blitz” relies on an unique thought from McQueen, who may also write and produce along with directing.

    However, the plot particulars have been saved underneath wraps in the mean time.

    “The team at New Regency have been wonderful partners to me over the years. I’m thrilled to work with Arnon, Yariv, and Michael again and very excited to join forces with Tim and Eric at Working Title Films,” the filmmaker mentioned.

    McQueen’s manufacturing firm Lammas Park will produce the undertaking alongside Working Title Films.

    The filmmaker most just lately directed, wrote, and produced “Small Axe”, a critically acclaimed five-part anthology sequence for launched on streamer Prime Video in 2020.

    McQueen additionally co-directed and produced BBC-Amazon documentaries “Black Power: A British Story of Resistance”, “Subnormal: A British Scandal” and “Uprising”.

  • Christian Bale to play drug smuggling preacher in ‘The Church of the Living Dangerously’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Oscar winner Christian Bale is all set to play a drug smuggling preacher within the characteristic adaptation of David Kushner’s Vanity Fair article “The Church of the Living Dangerously”.

    New Regency has acquired the film rights to the 2019 article and employed “The Big Shot” fame Charles Randolph to put in writing the script.

    Bale will produce the movie with New Regency in addition to Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson of The Gotham Group, whereas Randolph and Kushner will govt produce alongside Margaret Riley, reported Deadline.

    “The Dark Knight” star will play John Lee Bishop, who survived a troublesome childhood to turn into the pastor of a Portland megachurch.

    Bishop was a preferred preacher and have become fairly rich, although he later developed an habit to alcohol and painkillers.

    His son, David, developed a meth and heroin behavior, and in an effort to not fail his son, and higher perceive the ability the medicine held over his boy, Bishop started taking the identical medicine as properly.

    He was, finally, caught smuggling medicine for a Mexican cartel.

    He was sentenced to 5 years in jail.

    New Regency’s deal contains the life rights of each Bishop and his son, who helped save his father’s life.

    Bale simply completed filming David O Russell’s new film and was final seen in acclaimed movies like “Ford V Ferrari” and “Vice”.

    He can also be set to play the function of supervillain Gorr the God Butcher in Taika Waititi’s Marvel film “Thor: Love and Thunder” and Scott Cooper’s Netflix movie “The Pale Blue Eye”, which marks his first producing credit score.