It seems One Direction singer Harry Styles will be adding a new job role to his CV: actor. He and Fionn Whitehead will be starring in Christopher Nolan’s World War II action-thriller, DUNKIRK.
Styles and Whitehead will be on board the project with Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Branagh, which centres on the British military evacuation of the French city of Dunkirk in 1940. This is the first time that both Harry Styles and Fionn Whitehead will star in a feature film.
British actors Jack Lowden and Aneurin Barnard have also joined the cast of DUNKIRK.
It was back in November that word first got out that Nolan had come on to direct and produce the film with his longtime partner, Emma Thomas. They have been conducting an extensive casting search.
DUNKIRK will be shot on a combination of Imax 65mm and 65mm large format film and production is scheduled to commence in May at many of the locations where the true-life events actually took place.
A quickly-assembled British fleet of more than 800 boats saved more than 335,00 soldiers who had been cut off by the German Army. As the rescue was concluding, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Parliament, “We shall fight on beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
Fionn Whitehead is no stranger to the acting world, having appeared in ITV’s three-part horror-drama “Him.” Lowden appeared in BBC-Weinstein Company’s ‘War and Peace” and Amma Asante’s “A United Kingdom.”
DUNKIRK is scheduled for released in July 21st, 2017.
