EXCLUSIVE: Even together with his newest movie, Tender Bar, gearing up its award season marketing campaign, George Clooney’s subsequent movie is gaining momentum because the Oscar-winner has tapped Callum Turner to star in The Boys In The Boat from MGM and Smokehouse Photos with Clooney and his Smoke Home Associate Grant Heslov co-directing. Mark L Smith tailored the screenplay.
Primarily based on #1 New York Instances bestselling writer Daniel James Brown’s 2013 novel The Boys within the Boat: 9 People and their Epic Quest for Gold on the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the story tells the triumphant underdog story of the College of Washington males’s rowing staff, who shocked the world by successful gold on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Clooney has been eyeing this adaptation for a while and got here near directing final 12 months however when he had the chance to direct Tender Bar, he determined to shoot that first and positioned this as his follow-up challenge.
As for Turner, the British actor’s star has been on the rise ever since his breakout position in Jeremy Saulnier’s thriller Inexperienced Room. He was lately handpicked to star in Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s Masters of the Air for Apple. Directed by Cary Fukunaga, the restricted collection is a continuation of the Band of Brothers and The Pacific franchise. In 2020, he additionally was nominated for a BAFTA for his work because the lead in BBC’s The Seize.
Since 2018 on the movie facet, Turner has starred within the Warner Bros Unbelievable Beasts franchise because the brother to Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander. He’s represented by WME, Curtis Brown UK, Ziffren Brittenham.