Michelle Williams Set to Join Damien Chazelle's Prison-Set Feature

Movieweb reports that, citing Deadline, Michelle Williams will join the cast of Damien Chazelle's next feature, which is expected to be set in a prison.

Deadline says Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are also reportedly part of the cast. Few details are known about the film's plot or title; production is expected to begin later in 2026. Chazelle will write and direct the project and is producing alongside Olivia Hamilton. Williams recently won a Golden Globe for the series Dying for Sex and has been nominated for five Academy Awards for Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine, My Week with Marilyn, Manchester by the Sea and The Fabelmans.

The article notes Chazelle has not directed a feature in four years, that he broke out with Whiplash and won the Best Director Oscar for La La Land at age 32, and that he has directed actors to Oscar wins for J.K. Simmons and Emma Stone. A previously planned Evel Knievel biopic has been delayed as Chazelle pivots to this prison drama; with few confirmed details, the report says it is early to judge but that the film could prompt awards discussion and might be the project to finally earn Williams an Academy Award.

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Culture, Michelle Williams, Damien Chazelle, Cillian Murphy, Daniel Craig, Olivia Hamilton