With the trailer for Blitz now revealed, Steve McQueen could be headed to the small screen for his next project.
If it feels like far too long since we saw a new Steve McQueen film at the cinema, and bluntly, that’s because it is. 2018’s Widows was the last McQueen movie to play wide at cinemas. Although he’s been busy in the years since with the documentary feature, Occupied City, his Small Axe anthology for the BBC and much more, a return to big screen drama feels overdue.
Good job then that we’re getting Blitz in November, a WWII-era epic drama taking place during the German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Stephen Graham, Erin Kellyman, and Hayley Squires. The trailer for it has just landed, and you can find more on that here.
According to World Of Reel, the filmmaker’s next project is with Amazon and could well be Last Days, a project he signed up for back in 2020. The premise for the project sounds fascinating, if not eerily prescient:
Last Days was described back in 2020 as a “gripping sci-fi thriller in which the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonize Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and the rise of AI. The series will follow one woman’s journey to explore the truth about where she came from, at the risk of losing everything she knows.
“It’s not as dystopian as you’d think”, said Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke at the time, who added there’s a “twist” to the series which only piques our interest further.
We can’t help but think about when fellow British talent Alex Garland swapped the big screen for the smaller one and went to make a compelling tech-based drama in the form of DEVS. That worked out rather well and as with Garland, we’d love to see what McQueen would do with long-form storytelling.
With Blitz due to release in a couple of months, we surely won’t have to wait too long to find out what McQuuen’s follow-up project is. Last Days sounds promising but whatever it might be, we’ll let you know when we hear more.
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