(Left) Ben Stiller arrives on the pink carpet of the 97th Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit score/Supplier: Mark Von Holden / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S. (Proper) Jeremy Allen White on the thirtieth Annual SAG Awards pink carpet. Picture: Andrew Piccardo for Shutterstock for SAG Awards/Netflix.
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- Ben Stiller is seeking to direct ‘Airman’.
- ‘The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White is in talks to star.
- A24 is making a deal to distribute.
Whereas some films vanish into the obscurity of improvement limbo, others discover a solution to clamber out and begin their journeys to display anew.
Take, for, instance, spectacular based-on-truth World Struggle II story ‘The Misplaced Airman: A True Story of Escape From Nazi-Occupied France’, which at one level was within the works as a starring undertaking merely referred to as ‘Airman’ for Jake Gyllenhaal.
He’s since pulled the eject wire (although nonetheless has a producer credit score), however now The Hollywood Reporter brings phrase that Ben Stiller and Jeremy Allen White are in talks to direct and star respectively, with A24 additionally circling the potential film as distributor.
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What’s the story of ‘Airman’?
Ben Stiller presents the Oscar® for Manufacturing Design in the course of the dwell ABC Telecast of the 97th Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit score/Supplier: Phil McCarten / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.
The supply materials on this case is Seth Meyerowitz’s 2016 e book, which tells the unbelievable true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret-gunner whose B-24 bomber was shot down over Vichy France in 1943.
Whereas hiding within the French countryside, Meyerowitz befriended Marcel Talliander, the founding father of the legendary French resistance group Reseau Morhange, who helped shelter the person from the Gestapo via his secret community. After six months of barely evading seize, an escape plan was hatched that noticed the soldier cross into Spain and eventual freedom.
‘The Historical past of Sound’s Ben Shattuck wrote the screenplay, which Stiller would direct.
What else are Ben Stiller and Jeremy Allen White engaged on?
Jeremy Allen White as Carmen ‘Carmy’ Berzatto in ‘The Bear’ Season 4. Picture: FX.
Stiller hasn’t stepped behind the digital camera for a characteristic since 2016’s ‘Zoolander 2’, however he’s definitely been maintaining busy on the small display, overseeing 2018 restricted sequence ‘Escape at Dannemora’ and, extra not too long ago, popular culture sensation ‘Severance’ for Apple TV+.
The latter’s second season notched 27 Emmy nominations, with the trophies set to be handed out this month.
As for White, he’s nonetheless greatest identified for FX sequence ‘The Bear’, which has seen him scoop his personal haul of awards.
However movie-wise, he’s additionally been drawing reward for his position in Bruce Springsteen music biopic ‘Ship Me from Nowhere’, which premiered on the Telluride Movie Competition final week. It’ll be on screens on October twenty fourth.
When will ‘Airman’ be on screens?
The offers are nonetheless at a comparatively early stage, so till ink has been spilled on contracts and plans are extra securely in place, don’t anticipate to be taught a launch date.
Male Actor in a Comedy Collection, Jeremy Allen White, ‘The Bear’ thirtieth Display Actors Guild Awards, Present, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA – 24 Feb 2024. Credit score: Picture by Christopher Polk/Shutterstock for SAG.