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 line with The Hollywood Reporter, the movie, which is presently 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 title with high-profile field workplace productions, together with the X-Males franchise, Superman Returns, and the Academy Award-winning The Typical Suspects. In 2017, whereas directing Bohemian Rhapsody amid chaotic circumstances and repeated absences from set, Singer was fired from the manufacturing, which was in the end accomplished by filmmaker Dexter Fletcher. Nonetheless, Singer’s title remained on the venture, 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 Crimson Sonja, however the venture additionally fell through after he was hit with multiple accusations of sexual misconduct with minors. Singer was ultimately 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 yr alongside Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson.
