Oscar Isaac is all over the place and with one of his many recent roles coming in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he’s not going anywhere soon. Now, perhaps the most legendary director of them all has eyes for Isaac.
Variety is reporting that Steven Spielberg has tapped Isaac for The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which the two-time Oscar winner will lens early next year after finishing up work on the highly-anticipated Ready Player One. Isaac, most recently seen (or not entirely given all that makeup) as the titular villain in X-Men: Apocalypse, is hard at work on the next installment of the Star Wars saga, set for release next Christmas.
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara will also star recent Spielberg favorite Mark Rylance, who won an Oscar for last year’s Bridge of Spies and is currently appearing as the title character in the mega-flop The BFG. The story follows the kidnapping of a young, Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in the mid-19th century who becomes the focal point of a battle pitting “the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.”
Isaac has caught the eye of several big-time, big-name filmmakers in addition to Spielberg over the past few years, including The Coen Brothers (Inside Llewyn Davis), David Simon (Show Me A Hero) and Nicholas Winding Refn (Drive) to name a few.
(via Variety)
