Breaking Baz: Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ Recreates Bombing Raids On London As Seen Through The Eyes Of Brave 9-Year-Old Boy
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: It was the faded monochrome photograph of a small Black boy, both hands gripping a valise, as he leaves London with a party of other school-age evacuees, that caught Steve McQueen’s eye while he was researching his Small Axe film anthology. “I just wanted to know who he was … what was his story?” the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave filmmaker recalls thinking when Deadline met up with him to talk about his thrilling, deeply personal new movie Blitz.
It’s set in 1940 wartime London, when Hitler’s Luftwaffe unloaded its payloads and pounded the city seemingly nonstop for eight months.
The movie, a Working Title production for Apple, will have its world premiere October 9 as opening-night film of the BFI London Film Festival at the Southbank Centre.
The following night, October 10, it’s the New York Film Festival’s closing-night feature. Blitz then will debut November 1 in select cinemas before premiering globally on Apple TV+ on November 22.
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