Oscar Powerhouse Joins Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy in High-Stakes Prison Drama

Well, here’s a cast that pretty much guarantees I’ll buy a ticket. Paramount is loading up its upcoming (and still untitled) prison movie, with Damien Chazelle calling the shots. Yes, that Damien Chazelle—the guy behind La La Land and Whiplash, who became the youngest director to win an Oscar for that whole singing-in-LA thing. So, we’ve already got Daniel Craig and Cillian Murphy at the top of the call sheet. Now, Michelle Williams is officially joining them—and if that already sounds stacked, you’re not wrong.

Three Megastars. One Prison. Still Zero Plot Details.

Let’s break down who’s who in this lineup:

• Cillian Murphy: Fresh off that Oscar for Oppenheimer; about to pull the razor blades out again as Tommy Shelby in Netflix’s upcoming Peaky Blinders movie.
• Daniel Craig: Not a Bond in sight—he’s back as Benoit Blanc in Netflix’s Knives Out follow-up (Wake Up Dead Man), but now he’s trading a southern drawl for prison bars.
• Michelle Williams: Five Oscar nominations, just won a Golden Globe for FX’s Dying for Sex (which is a miniseries, not a lost Sex and the City prequel). She’s also got another thriller with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Andrew Scott (*A Place in Hell*) on the way, because apparently sleep is for the weak.

Here’s the kicker: Paramount is saying almost nothing about who these three are playing or even what the movie is about. Literally, the only thing confirmed is 'prison movie'. So, whatever your guesses are about plot dynamics, you’re just as in the dark as everyone else.

Damien Chazelle — Highs, Lows, and Back at It

For Chazelle, this project is his big directorial return post-Babylon. (Remember Babylon? The movie with Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, which was supposed to be a wild Hollywood epic but kind of bombed at the box office? Yeah, that one.) Chazelle’s on writing and directing duties here, and—maybe as a ‘take two’—he’s also producing the film through his Will Chickens Productions banner, with longtime collaborator Olivia Hamilton.

The All-Star Career Checkpoint

If you’re somehow on the fence about the lineup:

"Michelle Williams is an actress of rare sensitivity and fearlessness. Her addition will make this one a lot harder to ignore."

Translation: If the script’s even halfway decent, Paramount probably has its next awards contender.

So far, no title, no details, no leaks about who’s running the cellblock or if there’s a jailbreak. Just a triple-A cast and a director looking for a hit. I’m definitely keeping an eye on this one, and I’ll drop news as soon as someone at Paramount decides to stop playing it so close to the vest.