Filmmaker Bryan Singer has quietly directed a brand new film starring Jon Voight. It marks Singer’s first time within the director’s chair since he was fired from the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody and his profession was largerly derailed by accusations of sexual misconduct.
In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, the movie, which is at the moment untitled, is described as “a father-son story set amid the backdrop of the Israel occupation of Lebanon within the ’70s or ’80s.”
Singer made his identify with high-profile field workplace productions, together with the X-Males franchise, Superman Returns, and the Academy Award-winning The Standard Suspects. In 2017, whereas directing Bohemian Rhapsody amid chaotic circumstances and repeated absences from set, Singer was fired from the manufacturing, which was finally accomplished by filmmaker Dexter Fletcher. Nonetheless, Singer’s identify remained on the challenge, which went on to gross greater than $910 million worldwide and win 4 Oscars.
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He later secured the directing job for Pink Sonja, however the challenge additionally fell through after he was hit with multiple accusations of sexual misconduct with minors. Singer was finally replaced by Jill Soloway earlier than the movie was shelved indefinitely.
Outspoken conservative Voight, who was cast by Francis Ford Coppola in Megalopolis partially as a result of he didn’t need it to be a “woke Hollywood manufacturing,” was appointed by Donald Trump as a “Special Ambassador” to Hollywood earlier this 12 months alongside Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson.
