'Oppenheimer' actor Cillian Murphy has been cast in new epic thriller 'Blood Runs Coal'.
Cillian Murphy has been cast in 'Blood Runs Coal'.
The 'Oppenheimer' actor will take the lead in an adaptation of Mark A. Bradley's book 'Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America' about a corrupt union leader who kills one of his rivals.
As reported by Deadline, the movie is being scripted as "a starring and producing vehicles for Murphy".
'Spectre' and 'Ford v Ferrari' scribe Jez Butterworth will pen the script alongside 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' writer John-Henry Butterworth.
The story is set in the late 1960s in the Pennsylvania coal mines, focusing on one of the most infamous union crimes in United States history.
The movie will focus on the life of Jock Yablonski, who championed better working conditions for miners.
He accused an election opponent of fraud, and was assassinated along with most of his family.
His son Chip Yablonski (Murphy) embarks on a journey of justice.
Meanwhile, 'Peaky Blinders' creator Steven Knight has confirmed Murphy will "definitely" be reprising his role as gangster Tommy Shelby in the big screen adaptation of the BBC drama.
Speaking to Birmingham World at the premiere of his new BBC series 'This Town', Knight said: "He definitely is returning for it. We're shooting it in September just down the road in Digbeth."
The Oscar-winner's return as Tommy Shelby is unsurprising as he has often talked about his interest in playing the character in a film as long as the script was of sufficient quality.
Cillian told Rolling Stone UK last year: "If there's more story there, I'd love to do it.
"But it has to be right. Steve Knight wrote 36 hours of television, and we left on such a high. I'm really proud of that last series. So, it would have to feel legitimate and justified to do more."
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Comedies don't get much darker than this pitch-black British movie, written and directed by Sally...
Britain's epic 1940 evacuation of Dunkirk has been dramatised on film before, but no one...
It's 1940 and World War II is in full swing. Allied soldiers from Britain, Belgium,...
In one of the biggest military disasters in British history, 400,000 soldiers found themselves stranded...
Basically a 90-minute shoot-out, there isn't a lot to this movie. British filmmaker Ben Wheatley...
It's 1978 Boston and an unlikely gang made up of Justine (Brie Larson), Stevo (Sam...
Outside the Czech Republic, few people know about Operation Anthropoid, a spy mission in 1943...
Reinhard Heydrich was one of the fiercest anti-Semitic officers in the Nazi army. He authored...
Expectations are a problem with this year's Secret Cinema event. After the jaw-dropping, goosebump-inducing surprises...
With a huge budget and a relatively small story, this is an intriguingly offbeat blockbuster...
In The Heart Of The Sea is the true seaman's tale based on the last...
In August of 1819, The Essex set sail from New England. The whaling ship set...
Far too slow-paced to work as a thriller and too shallow to properly challenge us...