Movie News: Joe Wright in talks to direct Working Title's Winston Churchill WWII Drama 'Darkest Hour'!

This is interesting. Matthew Macfadyen just co-starred (in a small part) in ITV's Churchill's Secret, which recently aired in UK's ITV channel last February 28th (and will air sometime this year on PBS Masterpiece in the US). Now, Matthew's Pride & Prejudice director Joe Wright is in talks to direct another Churchill related movie. This one is a different take though for the big screen from Working Title Films (who produced JW's Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Anna Karenina films). According to Deadline, the writer of Working Title's award-winning film The Theory of Everything penned the story and co-produces the film along with P&P producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Production is set to start in July with casting underway. If JW (officially) signed on to do this film, it'll be interesting to see who will get cast as Churchill and the supporting cast.

Read more info. about Darkest Hour via Deadline below...

Joe Wright In Talks To Direct Winston Churchill Pic For Working Title

 EXCLUSIVE: Joe Wright is in talks to direct Brit production powerhouse Working Title’s Winston Churchill pic Darkest Hour. The director, who has a long history with Working Title co-toppers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, seems perfectly suited to the material, which takes place in 1940 as Churchill becomes Prime Minister in the midst of World War II and faces a moment of truth. Anthony McCarten, who wrote Working Title’s award-winning The Theory Of Everything, writes and produces here alongside Lisa Bruce and Bevan and Fellner.

The heavyweight filmmaking talent assembling behind the camera here puts this Churchill project right at the front of the queue. Production is set to start in July with the casting process to find their Churchill well underway.

Days into his new job as Prime Minister as Britain was getting pounded and on the verge of losing to Germany, Churchill was under pressure to make a deal with Hitler that would have established Britain as a puppet state of the Third Reich. His army stranded in Dunkirk, Churchill instead summoned the courage to fight on. The film is about his decisions, and the actions and immortal speeches in those critical days that defined his place in history and changed the destiny of the world.

Wright is directing an episode of Netflix’s keenly anticipated new season of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror with Bryce Dallas Howard and Alice Eve aboard to star. Created and written by Brooker, each stand-alone episode is a suspenseful tale exploring themes of contemporary techno-paranoia.