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Steven Spielberg is working on a script adapted by Tony Kushner
Updated : Jul 16, 2016, 10:07 AM IST
Actor Oscar Isaac is in negotiations to star opposite Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.
The filmmaker will start working on the true-life religious drama after he wraps the sci-fi thriller Ready Player One, reported Variety.
Tony Kushner is adapting the script based on David Kertzer's novel.
The true story centers on a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy, in 1858, who was seized by the police and removed from his parents' home. He was subsequently raised as a Catholic and became a priest in the Augustinian order.
Rylance will star as Pope Pius IX.