Sam Mendes (OW 1983) has been named as the Director for an upcoming WWI film, entitled ‘1917’, set to begin production in April.

The film, financed by Steven Spielberg’s Amberlin Partners, will mark Mendes’s debut writing credit, and is slated for a US release in December 2019.

‘1917’ will be Mendes’s first project since he directed Bond flicks ‘Skyfall’ and ‘Spectre’ back-to-back.

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