EXCLUSIVE: The next film by Damien Chazelle seems to have his goal on a serious star power while the deadline hears Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in negotiations to play on the new photo currently without title of the Oscar -winning director. Chazelle will direct and wrote the script and also produce alongside Olivia Hamilton under their banner Wild Chickens Productions. Paramount Pictures will distribute the film.
Although not confirmed, the initiates say that the film will take place in a prison.
If transactions end up concluding for both stars, production should start later this year. Chazelle had weighed several projects in recent months, including an Evel Knievel photo with Leonardo DiCaprio surrounding the main role. With the studio unable to conclude an agreement for DiCaprio, Chazelle returned to the prison drama as the next film.
As with any characteristic of Chazelle, A-List Talent always turns given its history; This case was no different, Murphy and Craig High on the project after a meeting with Chazelle.
Murphy comes out of his Oscar -winning role in Christopher Nolan Oppenheimer. He recently wrapped production on the Point connectors movie The immortal man in Netflix and was also recently seen in Little things like these.
Craig was recently seen in the A24 photo Weird, Which earned him a appointment to the Golden Globe. Then he should resume his role as Benoit Blanc in the next Knives following Wake up a dead man, which will bow later this year on Netflix.
Craig and Murphy are collected by Caa and Chazelle is taken up by WME.