Oppenheimer's Cillian Murphy teams up with the writers behind sci-fi actioner Edge of Tomorrow for a new movie
Mar. 26, 2024He’ll star in (and produce) the ’60s-set crime drama
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Cillian Murphy is set to star in and produce a new crime drama written by the team behindEdge of Tomorrow,Deadlinereports.
The movie will be an adaptation of the non-fiction book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley, which follows the assassination of a coal mining trade unionist and his family by a corrupt rival in ’60s Pennsylvania, and the FBI manhunt to track down the killer.
Murphyrecently won the Oscar for Best Actorfor his role as the titular physicist inOppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, and Blood Runs Coal isn’t the only upcoming project he has in the works, either.His next film, Small Things Like These, is set in ’80s Ireland and sees Murphy’s character discover some shocking secrets about his local convent and his own life. Murphy is also producing along with his Oppenheimer co-star Matt Damon. He’s also reportedlyreturning as Tommy Shelby for the Peaky Blinders moviefrom series creator Steven Knight, which is set to start filming in a few months time.
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