The world premiere of Steve McQueen‘s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, will open 2024’s BFI London Movie Pageant (LFF) this October.
The Apple authentic movie – directed, produced, and written by Oscar winner McQueen (12 Years a Slave) – follows the journey of nine-year-old George, performed by newcomer Elliot Heffernan, in London via the Second World Warfare. He’s despatched to security within the English countryside by his mom Rita (Ronan), however is set to make his approach again to east London. Because the notorious German bombing marketing campaign concentrates on the U.Okay. capital, George finds himself in “immense peril” whereas a distraught Rita searches for her lacking youngster.
Alongside Ronan and Heffernan stars The Iron Claw‘s Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham.
McQueen has opened the LFF twice earlier than with Widows in 2018 and Mangrove in 2020. The London-born inventive mentioned of his newest movie: “Blitz is a film about Londoners. It honors the spirit of what and the way Londoners endured in the course of the blitz, but additionally explores the true illustration of individuals in London, whereas at its core is the story of a working-class household determined to be reunited throughout occasions of warfare. I couldn’t be extra thrilled that the BFI London Movie Pageant have invited us to open this yr’s competition, and to have fun the World Premiere of Blitz in my hometown.”
BFI’s LFF director Kristy Matheson mentioned: “Blitz is a movie of unbelievable scale. Steve McQueen infuses the movie with nuance at each flip; the depth of character and texture of town are all peerless and make this topic really feel utterly new. It’s an astounding manufacturing that can go away audiences in awe of the director, his forged, and inventive collaborators.”
McQueen’s Lammas Park produces alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Movies, Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer for New Regency, with producers Anita Overland and Adam Somner.
The movie will premiere in choose cinemas on Nov. 1, previous to streaming globally on Apple TV+ on Nov. 22.