After The Lobster seemed to re-energize Colin Farrell‘s career, he’s been on quite a streak. Along with two more projects with Yorgos Lanthimos, he’ll be seen this year in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled and Dan Gilroy’s Inner City, and now he’s joining another one of our most-anticipated films. The New World actor will be taking part in Steve McQueen‘s crime drama Widows, according to Variety.
Based on the British television series, featuring a script co-written by Gone Girl‘s Gillian Flynn, Farrell joins Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki, Daniel Kaluuya, André Holland, and Liam Neeson. Following four widows who come together to finish a robbery after their crooked husbands are killed on the job, Farrell won’t be playing one of the husbands, which hints at a more substantial role. Rather, he’ll be playing the role of a politician that gets involved in the heist plans of the widows.
As we await to see McQueen’s next film, if you’re in New York City this summer, you’ll also have the chance to see a short film from the 12 Years a Slave director. The Museum of Modern Art announced that starting on May 6 and running through the summer, they will display his 2009 work Static, which depicts the Statue of Liberty. Check out their description below.
Shot from a helicopter circling the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor, the film captures Lady Liberty both in furtive, detailed close-ups and from a greater remove. As suggested by the work’s title, the statue remains fixed, intended to be gazed at from afar, even as the many perspectives from which it is encountered are subject to change. Accompanied by the roaring sound of the helicopter blades, the piece is marked by unease and uncertainty, showcasing and scrutinizing one of the most iconic symbols of the US within the urban surroundings of New York City and New Jersey. This is the first time Static will be shown on the scale of a major civic space. The film was made in 2009 to coincide with President Barack Obama’s motion to reopen the Statue of Liberty to the public on July 4th as a special gift to the US after the monument’s eight-year closure following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Widows will be released by 20th Century Fox likely next year.