By Ana Perez
Oscar Issac will play Francis Ford Coppola in a film about the making of The Godfather
Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) has been cast to play Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary filmmaker, in a biopic about the making of The Godfather. Isaac, 41, will play a young Coppola and is set to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal (Spiderman: Far From Home), who will portray Robert Evans, the former Paramount studio head who supervised production. The film will take the audience behind-the-scences and into the bitter battles of Coppola and Evans throughout the production of The Godfather.
Isaac, a Guatemalan-American actor, who first got Hollywood’s as Llewyn Davis in the Coen Brother’s Inside Llewyn Davis, has gone on to become one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men. His star power solidified recently in big film like A Most Violent Year, Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Isaac recently finished filming Dune, Denis Villeneuve‘s new adaptation of the classic. The release has been pushed back until October 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 he will be seen starring inHBO’s limited series Scenes from a Marriage, which is inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s movie of the same name and Gomez in The Addams Family2.
The film, entitled Francis and The Godfather will be directed by Academy Award winning director Barry Levinson (Rain Man). The producers are Echo Lake Entertainment’s Mike Marcus, Doug Mankoff and Andrew Spaulding, as well as Kevin Turen, Jon Levin, and Baltimore Pictures’ Jason Sosnoff.
Matthew López Strikes Incredible Television Deal with Amazon
Deadline broke the news that Matthew López, the playwright behind the hit Broadway play The Inheritance, has signed an overall television deal with Amazon Studios. López, a writer on Aaron Sorkin’s HBO drama The Newsroom, is set to develop and create new projects for the streaming site.
It is the latest overall deal for Amazon Studios, which in the last twelve months have signed up Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve), Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Widows), Gloria Calderon Kellett (One Day at a Time) and Lena Waithe (Queen & Slim, Master of None).
López’s play The Inheritance, directed by Stephen Daldry, premiered at London’s Young Vic in 2018, transferred to the West End and opened on Broadway last year. The play is an ambitious two-part, seven-hour epic centered around a group of gay New Yorkers, 20 years after the height of the AIDs epidemic.
The Puerto Rican screenwriter and playwright has also been off-Broadway with The Whipping Man and The Legend of Georgia McBride, the latter he is adapting for the screen with The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons attached to star and produce. He has also written for Netflix and developed Plan B Entertainment and Working Title Films.
“I am incredibly excited to be partnering with Amazon Studios, alongside so many of my favorite writers and creators,” said López. “The first and last thing any artist needs is a safe place in which to create. I am grateful to the entire Amazon family for welcoming me into their home.”“Matthew is a ground-breaking talent. We have been longtime fans, but The Inheritance blew us away. His provocative, empathetic storytelling feels perfectly at home on our service,” added Albert Cheng, COO and Co-Head of Television, Amazon Studios. “We’re proud to welcome him to the Amazon family, and cannot wait for his future projects to captivate our Prime Video audiences worldwide.”
The Mandalorian premieres Friday, October 30 on Disney+
The wait for season 2 of The Mandalorian is almost over! Pedro Pascal, the Chilean-American actor will return to our screens on Friday, October 30th on Disney+.
The first season of The Mandalorian takes the audience on the adventures of various characters in a far away galaxy, mainly focusing on familiar yet never before seen characters in the Star Wars world.
Pascal stars in the show as the title character Mando, also known as the Mandalorian. It is later revealed that his name is Din Djarin and he is an elite bounty hunter and a member of the nearly-extinct Mandalorian people.
During an assignment to retrieve and deliver The Child, Mando decides to disobey orders as he grows attached to Baby Yoda. The two escape from a number of enemies, many of whom have evil plans for the fan favorite Baby Yoda.
Trick-or-treating may be cancelled this year, but at least you can watch The Mandalorian on Disney+.
