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Steven Spielberg sets ‘The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara’ as his next

Steven Spielberg will start his long-in-the-works religious drama "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara," after he wraps "Ready Player One".

Steven Spielberg, Steven Spielberg Movie, Steven Spielberg film, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, Ready Player One, Entertainment news Filmmaker Steven Spielberg will start his long-in-the-works religious drama “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” after he wraps “Ready Player One”.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg will start his long-in-the-works religious drama “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” after he wraps “Ready Player One”.

Mark Rylance, who won the best supporting Oscar for Spielberg’s “Bridge Of Spies,” will star as Pope Pius IX in the Amblin Entertainment project, reported Entertainment Weekly.

Tony Kushner, who worked on Spielberg’s “Lincoln” and “Munich,” wrote the script adapting the David Kertzer novel, which has been in development with the filmmaker since 2008.

The true story revolves around a six-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy, in 1858 who was seized by the police and removed from his parents’ home. He was subsequently raised as a Catholic and became a priest in the Augustinian order.

Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger, who produced “Bridge of Spies,” will back the project.

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