Matthew McConaughey and director Paul Greengrass are wrapping up The Lost Bus, a wildfire drama developed and produced by Jamie Lee Curtis. However, they’re keen to work together again and soon, because Deadline reports McConaughey will star in The Rage, which Greengrass will direct.
Greengrass will write and direct The Rage (formerly titled The Hood), with McConaughey starring in the film set during the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 England. The conflict arose due to high taxes, plus socio-economic and political tensions following the Black Death and the Hundred Years’ War. McConaughey is expected to play a farmer who becomes the leader of the revolt. The revolt is sometimes referred to as “Wat Tyler’s Rebellion”, and it is possible McConaughey is playing the legendary leader.
This is a project that has been in the works for a while, and in an earlier version Benedict Cumberbatch was attached to star.
McConaughey hasn’t been seen on the big screen since 2019 when he starred in The Gentlemen, The Beach Bum, and Serenity. He’s voiced a couple of films, though, including Sing 2 and Cowboypool in Deadpool & Wolverine. His next film, Andrew Patterson’s The Rivals of Amziah King, will premiere at SXSW next month.
