Warner Bros. and Guy Ritchie seem to have bonded quite well, after three coming four movies together, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and the upcoming The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Now according
to THR, Warner Bros. as bought the rights for the Thomas Kelly novel Empire
Rising and is keen on having Ritchie directing it.
The story
is set in the 1930’s during the construction of the Empire State Building and
centers on a love triangle between a beautiful artists named Grace Masterson,
an immigrant steelworker called Michael Brody and Johnny Farell the liaison between
the criminal underworld and the Mayor, Jimmy Walker.
As stated
Guy Ritchie’s next movie will be The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but he also has a
third Sherlock movie and a Treasure Island reboot/remake in the pipeline, so it
may take some time before Empire Rising gets off the ground.
Empire
Rising Synopsis Via Amazon:
It
is 1930, and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of
the thousands of men who will come to work high above the city is Michael
Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in
America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause.
When he meets Grace Masterson, an alluring artist who is depicting the great
skyscraper’s rise from her houseboat on the East River, Briody’s life suddenly
turns exhilarating–and dangerous–for Grace is also a paramour of Johnny
Farrell, Mayor Jimmy Walker’s liaison with Tammany Hall and the underworld.
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