Recent Best Actor Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy is set to star in, and produce, a film that has local ties. The “Oppenheimer” actor is attached to a film adaptation of “Blood Runs Coal: the Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America,” according to Variety.
Mark A. Bradley's book, "Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America," a finalist for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime, covers the 1969 New Year's Eve murder of United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) rebel Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, his wife and his daughter.