Michelle Williams has joined the cast of Damien Chazelle’s upcoming, yet-untitled feature, which already stars Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy. Paramount Pictures is set to release the film, marking Chazelle’s next directorial effort after 2022’s Babylon.
Written and directed by Chazelle, the project is said to be set in a prison. He will also produce the film alongside Olivia Hamilton under their Wild Chickens Productions banner. The director is returning to the spotlight following Babylon, his ambitious portrait of early Hollywood that struggled at the box office despite its scale and vision.
Williams comes into the project fresh off a major win, having picked up a Golden Globe for her performance in FX’s Dying for Sex. A five-time Academy Award nominee, her filmography includes Blue Valentine, Brokeback Mountain, Manchester by the Sea, My Week With Marilyn and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans. She is currently appearing on stage in Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie at St Ann’s Warehouse.
The actor’s upcoming slate also includes A Place in Hell, a thriller written and directed by Fair Play filmmaker Chloe Domont, in which she will star alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones and Andrew Scott.
Chazelle, meanwhile, remains one of contemporary cinema’s most celebrated filmmakers. He won the Oscar for La La Land and previously directed the Oscar-winning Whiplash, as well as the Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. At various points, he has also been attached to an Evel Knievel biopic that reportedly drew interest from Leonardo DiCaprio, though that project appears to be on hold for now.
Murphy, who recently won an Academy Award for Oppenheimer, continues to line up high-profile collaborations, while Craig was last seen in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Queer.