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Universal Pictures has preemptively secured an adaptation of Mark A. Bradley’s “Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America.” with newly minted Oscar winner Cillian Murphy as star and producer.
Jez Butterworth (“Spectre,” “Ford v Ferrari”) and John-Henry Butterworth (“Get On Up,” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”) will adapt the script. They previously collaborated on “Edge of Tomorrow.”
John Davis and Jordan Davis will produce through Davis Entertainment, while Murphy and Alan Moloney will produce through Big Things Films. Mark A. Bradley will executive produce. Universal’s Lexi Barta, who was recently promoted to senior vice president of production, will oversee the project for the studio.
“Blood Runs Coal” takes place in the late 1960s in the coal mines of Pennsylvania and chronicles a shocking murder that altered the history of American labor unions.
Murphy’s credits include films such as “Oppenheimer,” “The Dark Knight,” “Red Eye,” “Dunkirk” and “A Quiet Place Part II,” while he is best known on television as Tommy Shelby, the Birmingham gangster in the heart of “Peaky Blinders.” He’s staying busy after his recent Academy Award win, with upcoming projects including the historical drama “Small Things Like These,” Netflix’s “Steve” and a highly anticipated film “Peaky Blinders.” He will also executive produce “28 Years Later,” in which he will likely reprise his role from “28 Days Later.”
Murphy is represented by CAA, Lou Coulson Associates, David Weber/Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Jez and John-Henry Butterworth are represented by CAA and Alan Wertheimer at Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.
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