Key Highlights
- While unconfirmed, insiders say the film will be set in a prison.
- Production is expected to start later this year.
- Chazelle had been weighing several projects last year including an Evel Knievel pic with Leonardo DiCaprio circling the lead role.
- That film ultimately pushed allowing Chazelle to pivot to his prison pic that he was also developing.
- Once Murphy and Craig were committed to star the film was off the races with Chazelle beginning to court stars for other roles.
