EXCLUSIVE: After meeting and auditioning with a number actors, Top Boy breakout Micheal Ward has been set to join Olivia Colman in the Searchlight drama Empire of Light with Sam Mendes directing. T…
and he also penned the script and marks his first solo script. The film will be produced by Mendes and Pippa Harris’ Neal Street Productions. Production is expected to star in fall of 2022.
While plot details are under wraps, the film is described as love story, set in and around a beautiful old cinema, on the South Coast of England in the 1980s. Mendes will also reunite with his Mendes has been taking his time in finding Colman’s co-star and in recent weeks Ward began positioning himself as a choice for the role. Following a table read that blew away Mendes and execs, insiders say he was the clear cut choice with an offer recently being handed down to him.
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