Sam Mendes has signed up to direct a new feature named 1917. Deadline reports the news of the film’s announcement, which is set up over at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. The pair previously collaborated on Road To Perdition and the Oscar-winning American Beauty over at Dreamworks.
Mendes is co-writing the WWI movie with Penny Dreadful‘s Krysty Wilson-Cairns, and will produce the film with Peppa Harris. Exact plot details are unknown at this time.
“I couldn’t be happier to be back working with Amblin and Steven Spielberg again, alongside Donna Langley and all at Universal,” said Mendes to the trade. “I’ve been working on this script for over a year, so it’s very exciting to start making the movie itself a reality.”
“Our company has been a home for Sam since his first film,” said Spielberg. “I am so happy to have him back here in his old room spinning new stories – especially this hugely daring and ambitious new movie.”
