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.
Antonio Ferme editorSearchlight Pictures is teaming up with Sam Mendes for his next project “Empire of Light,” which is aiming for a fall 2022 release.
Olivia Colman is in negotiations to star.The film is a love story set in and around a beautiful old cinema on the South Coast of England in the 1980s.
Mendes is set to produce the film with Pippa Harris via Neal Street Productions. After co-writing “1917” with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, “Empire of Light” marks Mendes’ first solo outing as a screenwriter.The filmmaker has also brought cinematographer Roger Deakins into the fold, who won an Oscar for best cinematography last year at the Academy Awards for his work on “1917” (Mendes was also nominated).
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