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Oscar Isaac May Star With Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

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Oscar Isaac, Mark Rylance, and Steven Spielberg—in one movie? Be still the Academy’s beating heart!

On Friday, news broke that Oscar Isaac is in in talks to join Spielberg’s upcoming film The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. According to Variety, Spielberg plans to shoot the movie once Ready Player One wraps.

The film is set in 19th-century Italy, Variety reports, and follows a young Jewish boy who gets ripped away from his family and raised as a Christian—and the highly political struggle that ensues as his family tries to get him back.

There’s no word yet on who Isaac will be playing—but we already know that Rylance has been given a very sacred role on this project: he’ll be playing the Pope! This film marks the fourth collaboration announced between Rylance and Spielberg, following Bridge of Spies, The BFG, and Ready Player One.

Tony Kushner, the scribe behind Angels in America, Munich, and Lincoln, will write the script.

Needless to say this movie is prematurely shaping up to be an awards-season juggernaut. The team collectively has four Academy Awards wins and four Golden Globes between them, and plenty more nominations where that came from. And given the subject matter, it feels safe to assume this movie will be tugging at some heartstrings—especially with an Internet boyfriend on board.