Spotlight director Tom McCarthy’s untitled Matt Damon thriller sets release

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

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Focus Features and Participant Media have set a series of release dates for filmmaker Tom McCarthy's untitled thriller starring THE MARTIAN and GOOD WILL HUNTING actor Matt Damon.

Though the film has yet to receive a title, Focus Features has announced that the film follows an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.

According to today's press release, the UNTITLED TOM MCCARTHY PROJECT will arrive in theaters domestically on Friday, November 6, 2020 (Limited) and will expand on both November 13, 2020 and November 20, 2020.

The aforementioned film boasts a screenplay by Thomas Bidegain, Noé Debré, Tom McCarthy, and Marcus Hinchey. Joining Damon for the thriller are co-stars Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin. Meanwhile, Steve Golin, Tom McCarthy, Jonathan King, and Liza Chasin are producing.

McCarthy directed and co-wrote the 2016 award-winning feature SPOTLIGHT, a biographical crime drama that retold the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. McCarthy struck it rich at the Academy Awards that year, by taking home awards for both the Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture categories. With that kind of power and prestige, I've no doubt that award buffs and Academy members alike will be watching his next effort quite closely.

Source: Focus Features

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