Steve McQueen to follow 12 Years a Slave with female-led heist thriller
He'll co-write the project with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn
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Your support makes all the difference.It's been almost three years since filmmaker Steve McQueen's affecting drama 12 Years a Slave won a Best Picture Oscar, but only now had he decided what his next feature will be; Widows, a female-led heist thriller he'll co-write with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn.
The film is based on a 1983 British miniseries following a group of women who complete an armed robbery when their husbands get killed on the job.
Viola Davis will star as one of the film's four leads; reports suggest that McQueen approached Jennifer Lawrence to appear but scheduling conflicts meant she had to pass.
Emmy award-winner Davis currently stars in How To Get Away with Murder and has a role in upcoming Oscar-friendly drama Fences alongside Denzel Washington. Earlier this year, she appeared in DC mashup Suicide Squad as Amanda Waller, the intelligence operative tasked with assembling the ragtag bunch of villains.
McQueen's previous films include Hunger and Shame which both starred Michael Fassbender. Following 12 Years a Slave, McQueen began work on HBO series Codes of Conduct which was shelved in February. It was set to star Paul Dano, Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall.
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