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Universal Lands Epic Mining Crime Story ‘Blood Runs Coal’ For Its Oscar-Winning ‘Oppenheimer’ Star Cillian Murphy: Jez & John-Henry Butterworth Adapting Mark Bradley Book; Davis Entertainment Producing With Murphy
Universal Mining Crime Story Blood Runs Coal Oscar-Winning 'Oppenheimer' Star Cillian Murphy; Jez & John-Henry Butterworth Adapting Mark Bradley Book
EXCLUSIVE: Two nights before Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for the Universal Pictures blockbuster Oppenheimer, the studio completed a preemptive acquisition for the Mark A. Bradley book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. He fought for safety, better working conditions and health benefits as many around him were felled by black lung and other respiratory maladies, and mishaps in the mines were all too common and preventable. The actor excels in period films from Oppenheimer to Dunkirk, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, and Peaky Blinders, and NBCUniversal Chairman and Chief of Content Donna Langley moved quickly to preempt the package before other studios had the chance to bid.
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