Dark Knight and Interstellar director Christopher Nolan is set to film his own screenplay about the evacuation of Dunkirk during World War Two with Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and Tom Hardy in talks to join the cast.
Warner Bros. Pictures describes the film as an "epic action thriller set during the legendary evacuation."
Tom Hardy
Shooting will begin in May, 2016 using many of the real locations of the true-life events, which form the background for the story. Warner Bros. Pictures has slated the film for a July 21, 2017 release and it will be released theatrically on IMAX, 70mm, 35mm and all other screens.
Christopher Nolan
The evacuation of Dunkirk in June 1940 saw nearly 340,000 British troops escaping from the beaches of Northern France where they suffered heavy casualties from the advancing German army.
A recreation of the evacuation was one of the set pieces of Joe Wright's 2007 adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement.
