Deadline is reporting that Steven Spielberg has set his next film after Ready Player One, with the Oscar Winning director set to take on The Kidnapping of Of Edgardo Mortara.
The film will be an adaptation of the book of the same name by Pulitzer Prize winning author David Kertzer, with Tony Kushner (Lincoln) writing the screenplay for the film.
In addition to reuniting with writer Kushner, Spielberg is set for another reunion with Mark Rylance, who will play set to play Pope Pius IX in the film. The actor, who starred in Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies last year (for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), is also portraying The BFG in the Roald Dahl adaptation that is due in cinemas this summer.
The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara was published in 1997 and tells the story of “a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.”
Production is due to start in early 2017 for release later that year, after which Spielberg will return to direct Indiana Jones 5 with Harrison Ford. The BFG opens in cinemas on July 1st in the US and on July 22nd in the UK.
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Originally published April 12, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
