Following their collaborations on “Bridge of Spies,” “The BFG” and “Ready Player One,” Oscar-winner Mark Rylance and filmmaker Steven Spielberg are set to re-team for a new TV project.
Appearing at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Rylance revealed that it’s “a historical project, about something that happened in American history”.
In addition, Rylance’s wife – playwright, composer and director Claire van Kampen – is also onboard the project which has been set up at Amblin Entertainment.
According to Deadline the project will, in part, explore the Battle of Homestead – a tragic 1892 labor dispute at Pennsylvania’s Carnegie Steel Co. which led to a bloody clash between striking steel workers and security officers working for the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
The fight ended up being a pivotal event in U.S. labor history, was a major defeat for the union of strikers and a setback of their efforts to unionize steelworkers.
Rylance is coming off an acclaimed turn in Luca Guadagnino’s young romantic cannibal drama “Bones and All” alongside Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell.
