After career crisis, Bryan Singer returns as a director – Jon Voight plays along.
Bryan Singer, known for “X-Men”, “Superman Returns” and “The Usual Suspects”, secretly made a new film with actor Jon Voight. This is reported by the “Hollywood Reporter”. It is his first directorial work since “Bohemian Rhapsody”, in which he was fired by the set in 2017 for chaotic filming and repeated absences. The film is currently not a title. He tells a “father-son story” against the background of the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the 70s or 80s.
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Career crisis and return
Singer once made a big career in Hollywood, but was negatively in focus when accusations of sexual abuse became public. After his deposition on “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Dexter Fletcher made the film ready. Singer kept the director credit, but his career stagnated. Another project, “Red Sonja”, failed after renewed accusations against him. The direction finally took over Jill Soloway, and the film was postponed indefinitely.
Conservative position and prominent cast
Jon Voight, who was previously cast by Francis Ford Coppola for “Megalopolis”, did not want “Woke Hollywood” production, according to “Variety”. In 2025, Donald Trump appointed him to the “Special Ambassador” of Hollywood with Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson.
Details about the film
The start date and other cast members have not yet been determined. The action played in Lebanon in the 1970s or 1980s and tells a personal father-son relationship against a political background.
Singer has been living in Israel for several years. There he worked on documentary projects in which he wanted to address the allegations against himself. The new film marks its first step back on direct, but not back to Hollywood.