Bryan Singer Directed New Film About Israeli Occupation Starring Jon Voight

Filmmaker Bryan Singer has quietly directed a new movie starring Jon Voight. It marks Singer’s first time in the director’s chair since he was fired from the Oscar-winning Bohemian Rhapsody and his career was largerly derailed by accusations of sexual misconduct.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film, which is currently untitled, is described as “a father-son story set amid the backdrop of the Israel occupation of Lebanon in the ’70s or ’80s.”

Singer made his name with high-profile box office productions, including the X-Men franchise, Superman Returns, and the Academy Award-winning The Usual Suspects. In 2017, while directing Bohemian Rhapsody amid chaotic conditions and repeated absences from set, Singer was fired from the production, which was ultimately completed by filmmaker Dexter Fletcher. Still, Singer’s name remained on the project, which went on to gross more than $910 million worldwide and win four Oscars.

He later secured the directing job for Red Sonja, but the project also fell through after he was hit with multiple accusations of sexual misconduct with minors. Singer was eventually replaced by Jill Soloway before the film was shelved indefinitely.

Outspoken conservative Voight, who was cast by Francis Ford Coppola in Megalopolis in part because he didn’t want it to be a “woke Hollywood production,” was appointed by Donald Trump as a “Special Ambassador” to Hollywood earlier this year alongside Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson.