Sam Mendes, Olivia Colman Team for Love Story ‘Empire of Light’ for Searchlight
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Sam Mendes has found his follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama,
1917, teaming up with Olivia Colman and Searchlight for a 1980s-set love story.
Mendes will direct
Empire of Light, which he also wrote, with Colman set to star in the drama.
The feature project is already on the runway, with Mendes once again working with Roger Deakins, his cinematographer on
1917, Skyfall and
Details are being kept in the dark but
Light is described as a love story, “set in and around a beautiful old cinema, on the South Coast of England in the 1980s,” according to Searchlight, which made the announcement Tuesday.