Remember, just yesterday, when it was reported director Steve McQueen‘s next film would be Variety reports that McQueen’s actual next film will be something a bit out of left field. He will be adapting the British TV series “Widows” for the big screen.
The film, produced by New Regency (who also produced 12 Years a Slave), is a heist picture about a group of widows, whose spouses all died in a failed robbery, finishing the job they could not. That… actually sounds pretty awesome. It is definitely a very different direction than what McQueen has been making, but that makes it sound even more interesting.
The Paul Robeson film, which McQueen has wanted to make since his first film Hunger, has not gotten the kibosh. I hope that film ends up getting made at some point, because Robeson deserves a talented filmmaker to make a movie about his life. McQueen is also working on a pilot for HBO called “Codes of Conduct“, which also sounds like it could be quite good. Then again, it is McQueen. He does not take on projects that sound boring.
With Widows, the pilot, and the Robeson movie, McQueen is keeping himself busy. Now, we just have to wait and see how Michael Fassbender works his way into these projects. He has to be in them, right? It’s a rule. Or a blood oath.
Now, if you’re interested you can watch the whole first season of “Widows” directly below.
[yt id=”Cj5xpEcmQeo” width=”500″]
[yt id=”eWHxV_nBUR0″ width=”500″]
[yt id=”d1xzM6_uxXE” width=”500″]
[yt id=”JNGjE2ucp1o” width=”500″]
[yt id=”v_1HKnmqO_Y” width=”500″]
[yt id=”6obrOCELg1I” width=”500″]
Original report from Variety.
