Oppenheimer’s Cillian Murphy will star in and produce a new Netflix movie, Steve.
Per Due Date, Murphy will star in Steve, a new movie based upon Max Doorperson’s 2023 unique Shy. Steve is guided by Tim Mielants, that just recently teamed up with Murphy on Tiny Points Like These, which is premiering at the 74th Berlin International Movie Event on February 15, 2024.
Murphy is additionally releasing a new manufacturing business with Alan Moloney, Huge Points Movies, which will produceSteve The movie is being launched around the world by Netflix, with manufacturing anticipated to start this springtime.
What is Steve regarding?
“Steve is a reimagining of Porter’s Shy and traces a pivotal 24 hours in the life of its eponymous character, a headteacher (Murphy) of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health,” Due date’s summary of the movie checks out.
The movie script for Steve was composed by Doorperson.
“I just adore Max’s writing and the thing his writing does for me, which Claire Keegan’s writing does as well — and it’s something I’ve always chased down in writing — is something that has an actual visceral effect on you, an emotional effect,” Murphy stated of Doorperson’s book. “I remember reading Foster, Claire’s short story, I remember actually crying reading the book and having to put my hood up on the train to try to hide, I was so embarrassed. And then Shy was also that book. Max gave me that book in a proof edition before he finished it, and again it just broke my heart. They’re the sorts of things I love as a reader and as a performer, so I really wanted to do something with him.”
Murphy stated it was Doorperson’s concept to transform the primary personality, that is a trainee in the unique, right into a headmaster. “Myself and Alan and Max got on a call and we started to turn it around in our heads and it seemed like we could make a film out of it,” he clarified. “The same events happen, we’re just looking at them through a different lens.”
A launch day for Steve has actually not yet been established.