McCarten and Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything) are producing Darkest Hour with Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Douglas Urbanski (Nil by Mouth), reteaming with Focus and Working Title following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, for which Oldman was a Best Actor Oscar nominee.
Directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Hanna, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina) and starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill, Darkest Hour opens domestically in select cities on November 22, 2017.
The original Darkest Hour screenplay is by Anthony McCarten (The Theory of Everything).
Joining Oldman in the Darkest Hour cast are Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, and Ben Mendelsohn.