Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Sam Mendes has found his follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama, 1917, teaming up with Olivia Colman and Searchlight for a 1980s-set love story.
Mendes will direct Empire of Light, which he also wrote, with Colman set to star in the drama. The feature project is already on the runway, with Mendes once again working with Roger Deakins, his cinematographer on 1917, Skyfall and Revolutionary Road.
A fall 2022 release is being eyed. Details are being kept in the dark but Light is described as a love story, “set in and around a beautiful old cinema, on the South Coast of England in the 1980s,” according to Searchlight, which made the announcement Tuesday.
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