EXCLUSIVE: Two nights before Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for the Universal Pictures blockbuster Oppenheimer, the studio completed a preemptive acquisition for the Mark A.
Bradley book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. It’s an epic story of a corrupt union leader who murders a rival and is taken down by the lawyer son of the slain coal miner.
It will be scripted as a starring and producing vehicle for Murphy. Script will be written by Jez Butterworth (Spectre and Ford V Ferrari) will write the script with John-Henry Butterworth (Get On Up & Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny).
That duo worked together on Edge of Tomorrow. There is a lot here for them to mine. Blood Runs Coal takes place in the late 1960s in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, and one of the most infamous crimes in the history of organized labor.
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