Mike Leigh to Begin Taking pictures Secretive Untitled New Mission This 12 months – The Hollywood Reporter

Mike Leigh is about to enter manufacturing on his as-yet-untitled, super-secretive and now long-awaited subsequent characteristic this 12 months, The Hollywood Reporter can reveal

In typical model for the beloved veteran filmmaker and seven-time Oscar nominee, there’s little or no else to be revealed. Untitled Mike Leigh 2023, because the undertaking is now referred to as, is as a lot below wraps because it was when it was first introduced he was embarking on one other movie in 2020 (when it was entitled Untitled 2020). Plot, solid, and virtually the whole lot else is being stored below the thick veil of secrecy that the auteur prefers to function. What is thought is that the movie was due to enter manufacturing in 2020, however was among the many options impacted by the COVID pandemic. Three years on, and the wheels are lastly shifting.

Even regardless of the secrecy (which THR understands isn’t simply restricted to the general public realm, however throughout consumers, too), Bleecker Road already acquired the Film4-backed characteristic for the U.S. — its first collaboration with the director — whereas eOne has U.Okay. rights, persevering with its long-standing relationship with Leigh and his Third Man Movies banner. Cornerstone Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales and will probably be bringing the undertaking (again) to Berlin.

Funding comes from Film4, Ingenious and Spanish firm The Mediapro Studio, which act as co-producers. Georgina Lowe produces for Skinny Man, with Gail Egan as government producer.

Untitled Mike Leigh 2023 is the follow-up to Leigh’s 2018 interval epic Peterloo, his largest and boldest movie in his 50 years of labor as a director and a movie exploring the occasions surrounding the 1819 Peterloo Bloodbath, which noticed cavalry cost right into a crowd of people that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary illustration and which is taken into account one of the vital infamous and defining moments in U.Okay. historical past. Amazon backed the movie, main Leigh to inform THR on the time that each one his movies had been financed, to some extent, by a “reprehensible pressure.”