Common Footage has preemptively secured an adaptation of Mark A. Bradley’s “Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Employees of America.” with newly-minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy attached to star and produce.
Jez Butterworth (“Spectre”, “Ford v Ferrari”) and John-Henry Butterworth (“Get On Up”, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future”) will adapt the script. They previously collaborated on “Fringe of Tomorrow”.
John Davis and Jordan Davis will produce through Davis Entertainment, while Murphy and Alan Moloney will produce through Big Things Movies. Mark A. Bradley will executive produce. Universal’s Lexi Barta, who was recently elevated to senior vice president of production, will oversee the project for the studio.
“Blood Runs Coal” is set in the late 1960s in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, chronicling a stunning murder that altered the history of American unions.
Murphy’s credits include such films as “Oppenheimer,” “The Dark Knight,” “Crimson Eye,” “Dunkirk” and “A Quiet Place Part II,” while he is best known on television as Tommy Shelby, the Birmingham gangster at the heart of “Peaky Blinders”. He’s been busy following his recent Oscar win, with upcoming projects including the historical drama “Small Things Like These,” Netflix’s “Steve” and the highly anticipated film “Peaky Blinders.” He is also set to executive produce “28 Years Later,” which will likely see him reprise his “28 Days Later” role.
Murphy is repped by CAA, Lou Coulson Associates, David Weber/Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are repped by CAA and Alan Wertheimer at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Pattern & Klein.
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