‘Blitz’: Read The Screenplay For Steve McQueen’s World War II Drama That Started From A Single Photograph
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with Steve McQueen‘s Blitz, a searing period action drama that imagines one story of a million during The Blitz, when Nazi Germany bombed the UK for eight straight months during World War II.
Written and directed by the Oscar-winning McQueen, Apple Original Films‘ Blitz had its world premiere as the opening movie of the BFI London Film Festival and closed the New York Film Festival before hitting theaters November 1.
It debuted on Apple TV+ on November 22. The plot follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside amid the bombing.
George, defiant and determined to return home, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
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