Jeff Sneider
Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac
will star in “The Promise,” an epic love story that Oscar-winning
filmmaker Terry George (“Hotel Rwanda”) will direct from a script he
co-wrote with Robin Swicord (“Memoirs of a Geisha”), TheWrap has learned.
Mike Medavoy (“Black Swan”) is producing “The Promise” with Eric Esrailian, Ralph Winter (“X-Men”)
and William Horberg (“Milk”). Production is slated to start this fall in
Southern Europe, including Portugal and the Canary Islands.
Set
during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, “The Promise” follows a love
triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful
and sophisticated Ana, and Chris — a renowned American journalist based
in Paris.
Isaac will play Michael, a medical student in love with the same woman but conflicted by old-world traditions and his heart.
The
Ottoman Empire was dissolved in 1922 following the Armenian Genocide of
1915, which resulted in an estimated death toll of between 800,000 and
1.5 million people. The subject has been near and dear to George, who in
March 2013 was a guest of the Armenian State Pedagogical University,
where the Irish filmmaker compared the Armenian genocide to the Rwanda
genocide that he chronicled in “Hotel Rwanda.”
Bale
has shown an affinity for films about other cultures, having recently
starred in the Chinese-language production “The Flowers of War.” The
Oscar-winning star of “The Fighter,” “American Hustle” and the “Dark Knight” trilogy also made his feature debut in Steven Spielberg‘s historical drama “Empire of the Sun.”
Isaac
is in the midst of a major moment thanks to his upcoming turns in “Star
Wars: The Force Awakens” and “X-Men: Apocalypse.” He also has David
Simon’s HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero” on the horizon, and has been
touted as a possible Oscar contender for his supporting performance in
the acclaimed sci-fi movie “Ex Machina.”
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