Jack Reynor is to work with The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow on the Oscar winner's upcoming film about the 1967 Detroit Riots.
US trade daily Variety, which first reported Reynor's casting, says the Wicklow man will reunite for the crime-drama with British actor Will Poulter, his co-star in the acclaimed Irish film Glassland.
Joining Reynor and Poulter in the new movie are Star Wars' John Boyega and Ben O'Toole, the rising Australian actor whose upcoming films include Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.
Zero Dark Thirty director Bigelow's film is set during the five days of the Detroit Riots - among the deadliest in US history - in which 43 people were killed and over 1,100 injured during a period of social and racial unrest.
While no studio is attached to the project at present, the plan is to have the film in cinemas for the 50th anniversary of the riots next year.
Reynor was seen on screens earlier this year in Dublin director John Carney's acclaimed musical romance Sing Street and is set for a busy 2017 with a number of other films on the way.
He stars opposite Cillian Murphy in the Seventies-set crime-thriller Free Fire; is part of the ensemble cast of director Jim Sheridan's adaptation of Sebastian Barry's book The Secret Scripture and plays Slovak soldier Jozef Gabčik in HHhH, the true story of the plot to assassinate SS head Reinhard Heydrich, known as "The Butcher of Prague".
Ironically, Cillian Murphy also plays Jozef Gabčik in another new film about the Heydrich assassination plot, Anthropoid. That movie, which also stars Jamie Dornan, will be released next month.
