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‘Blitz’: Read The Screenplay For Steve McQueen’s World War II Drama That Started From A Single Photograph
Steve McQueen's Blitz is a searing period action drama that imagines one story in The Blitz, when Nazi Germany bombed the UK during World War II.
The plot follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside amid the bombing. Paul Weller, the frontman of iconic bands The Jam and The Style Council, makes his acting debut in the pic, which also stars Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke and Stephen Graham. Working with historical advisor Joshua Levine, who had previously collaborated with Christopher Nolan on another Word War II epic, Dunkirk, McQueen meticulously researched the era as the script took shape.
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