Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
EXCLUSIVE: Before her directorial debut Blink Twice bows next month, Zoë Kravitz looks to be making plans for her next acting job as she is in talks to join Austin Butler in Darren Aronofsky’s crime thriller Caught Stealing for Sony Pictures.
Aronofsky will direct direct the pic, which is based on the book by Charlie Huston. The script will be written by Huston, with Protozoa producing.
The film follows Hank Thompson, a burned-out former baseball player, as he’s unwittingly plunged into a wild fight for survival in the downtown criminal underworld of ‘90s New York City.
It is unknown who Kravitz will play. On the acting side, Kravitz is coming off as playing Selina Kyle aka Catwoman opposite Robert Pattinson in The Batman.
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