{"id":11072,"date":"2018-05-16T15:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T15:18:06","slug":"gary-oldman-to-pen-direct-and-star-in-passion-project-flying-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"Gary Oldman to pen, direct and star in passion project &#8216;Flying Horse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Los Angeles, May 16 (DIN NEWS)<\/b>\u00a0Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman is all set to write, direct and feature in his passion project currently titled &#8220;Flying Horse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old actor is returning to filmmaking over 20 years after he made his directorial debut with &#8220;Nil By Mouth&#8221;, Deadline reported.<\/p>\n<p>Oldman will play famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer of motion pictures who had a troubled past. Muybridge murdered his wife&#8217;s lover and is later acquitted by a jury for justifiable homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Urbanski and Tucker Tooley are attached as producers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We long to make good movies, and that means good stories-and there are few stories as good as these events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Launching the first feature from our newly formed production company, Flying Studios, with Tucker makes the entire thing very special for us. We could not wish for a more supportive or collaborative partner,&#8221; Oldman and Urbanski said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow producer Tooley added, &#8220;This project has been a passion of Gary&#8217;s for some time, and I am thrilled to reunite with him to bring this compelling story to the big screen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after Oldman&#8217;s Best Actor Oscar win for &#8220;Darkest Hour&#8221; this year.<\/p>\n<p>His &#8220;Nil By Mouth&#8221; premiered at Cannes 1997 and received 11 BAFTA nods, leading to Best British Film and Best Screenplay wins.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, May 16 (DIN NEWS)\u00a0Academy Award-winning actor Gary Oldman is all set to write, direct and feature in his passion project currently titled &#8220;Flying Horse&#8221;. The 60-year-old actor is returning to filmmaking over 20 years after he made his directorial debut with &#8220;Nil By Mouth&#8221;, Deadline reported. Oldman will play famous photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer of motion pictures who had a troubled past. Muybridge murdered his wife&#8217;s lover and is later acquitted by a jury for justifiable homicide. Doug Urbanski and Tucker Tooley are attached as producers. &#8220;We&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}