Daniel Craig And Cillian Murphy In Talks For Modern Damien Chazelle Movie

Now, here’s some movie news that is very much our tempo on a Wednesday morning. With his mooted Leonardo DiCaprio Evel Knievel film having seemingly failed to launch, Whiplash auteur Damien Chazelle is already mounting another daring up-to-date project with a couple more bona fide acting heavyweights. Per Deadline‘s reporting, Queer‘s Daniel Craig and Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy are in talks to lead Chazelle’s as-yet-untitled next movie at Paramount.

According to Deadline, both actors are still currently in the negotiation process to join Chazelle’s follow-up to 2022 Hollywood love/hate letter Babylon, which would look to enter production later this year if the filmmaker gets his men to sign on the dotted line. As you’d expect at this early stage in proceedings, vanishingly little is known about what Chazelle’s cooking here, though sources on the inside are telling Deadline that the genre-hopping director’s film is looking likely to be a prison drama. Given Chazelle’s past works however, which have seen robust musical elements run through astronaut biopic First Man and the aforementioned Babylon just as readily as actual musical La La Land and drumming drama Whiplash, we certainly wouldn’t be shocked to see that influence come through again in the one-time budding jazz drummer’s latest genre exercise — or, more broadly, to see the definition of ‘prison drama’ stretched by the boundary pushing director.

With such scant information out there on Chazelle’s latest, almost everything beyond the two prospective stars’ names remains firmly in the realms of pure speculation for now. Even so, given the wild, hedonistic ride that Damien Chazelle took us on with Babylon, we cannot wait to see what he and his co-conspirators come up with next. One thing’s for certain, though: it’s going to take something pretty special to beat Margot Robbie fighting a snake. In Damien we trust! (No anti-christ endorsement intended…)