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After Oscar win: New drama role for Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy recently won his first Oscar. photo
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Cillian Murphy won this year’s Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now the Irish star wants to play a historical figure again.
The studio Universal Pictures, which also released “Oppenheimer,” has secured the filming rights to the book by author Mark A. Bradley. It describes the background to the murder of activist Joseph A. Yablonsky on December 31, 1969 in his home in the US state of Pennsylvania. His wife and daughter were also shot by intruders. Yablonsky had previously fought a bitter election campaign with union president Tony Boyle. Yablonsky’s son Chip, an employment lawyer, was not home at the time of the crime. He made it his mission to avenge the murders. The corrupt Boyle came under suspicion as the mastermind of the contract killings and was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Deadline.com, Murphy plays son Chip Yablonski.
Murphy gained worldwide fame in 2002 with the apocalyptic horror film “28 Days Later” and starred in the series “Peaky Blinders” for years. “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan also brought him in front of the camera for films such as “Batman Begins”, “The Dark Knight”, “Inception” and “Dunkirk”.