Oscar Isaac Joins Steven Spielberg's THE KIDNAPPING OF EDGARDO MORTARA

Despite a brief stumble with X-Men: Apocalypse, Oscar Isaac remains one of the most compelling, charismatic performers working in Hollywood right now. So it makes sense that Steven Spielberg would want to work with him, and Variety reports the two are teaming up for Spielberg's new film The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara. It's a smaller scale personal drama about "a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son becomes part of a larger political battle that pits the Papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification."

It isn't known which character Isaac will play, but it's not tough to envision him as either the father of the boy or as one of the priests. Isaac just wrapped Star Wars: Episode VIII, and Edgardo Mortura will be the next film for Spielberg after he completes Ready Player One and before he jumps back into Indiana Jones 5.