Looks like Bryan Singer shot a secret film in Greece, back in 2023, starring Jon Voight. I’m not kidding.
The filmmaker, who was canceled from Hollywood eight years ago, somehow mounted the funding needed and made a film about a father-son relationship set during a middle east conflict.
A Variety source who has seen the finished cut but is not involved with the production called it “a really well-made film with awards-season potential” but warned it will likely spark major controversy.
The film is set in the Middle East in the late 1970s or early ’80s, during Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, and “makes Israel look really bad and could be polarizing,” the source said. Another insider described the story as following an architect on a path to redemption
Singer, who been has been living in Israel these past five years, seems to have gone back to his indie roots. People tend to forget that before ‘X-Men,’ ‘Superman’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ he was an indie darling with “The Usual Suspects” and “Apt Pupil.”
A few years ago, Singer, who is working without an agent, was meeting with would-be investors about backing the film, which at the time was supposed to be made for under $10M.
It’ll be interesting to see if he can actually get a U.S. distributor for this film, or if it can even get released anywhere. Singer has had multiple accusations thrown at him the last few decades, and has denied all of them, proclaiming them to be “outrageous, vicious, and completely false.”
Back in 2018, right at the thick of #MeToo, a reckoning was slowly but surely brewing over his rumored past. It felt like it was just around the corner and ready to explode into the zeitgeist. In fact, many were just waiting for the bomb to come down after word came out of his erratic behavior on the set of the Freddy Mercury biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody." It finally did. He hasn’t directed a film since.