With a C.V. that includes the critically acclaimed dramas Hunger and Shame and Oscar-winner 12 Years a Slave, filmmaker Steve McQueen has revealed that he’s looking to change track a little with one of his next projects.
“I want to do a musical,” McQueen announced during an appearance on The Andrew Marr Show (via Deadline). “I want to make myself happy. Right now, the world is dark, it’s heavy, there’s no ifs, buts, maybes about it, it’s so unsure and uncertain and I think I need to shake off the blues and make us all happy.”
McQueen’s latest film, the Lynda La Plante adaptation Widows, opens in the UK this Tuesday and features a stellar cast that includes Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriquez, Cynthia Erivo, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Robert Duvall and Daniel Kaluuya. Read our review here.
From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption: “Widows” is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities. Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Widows is set for release on November 9th.
