'Macbeth' Duo Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma to Reteam for Family Drama 'The Beacon'

If you’re struggling to get tickets to Simon Godwin’s buzzy new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, well, just know that you’re not alone. The critically acclaimed production, which stars Ralph Fiennes (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) and Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) as the show’s titular murderous couple, played to packed houses in London and just kicked off a sold-out run at D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre, where your only hope to see it is to get lucky in the weekly $20 ticket lottery.

But if you’re more interested in seeing Fiennes and Varma work together than in this particular bit of the Bard, well, you’ll get another chance to do that in relatively short order. The duo is set to star in the feature film The Beacon, a contemporary drama that will be both written and directed by Fiennes himself.

Described as a meditation on family, class, race, and identity, The  Beacon marks Fiennes’ first original film screenplay. Set in his native county of Suffolk, it follows the story of a young man who grew up in London after having fled the Ugandan civil war as a child, whose decision to spend the summer with his privileged girlfriend’s family exposes deep fault lines in their community. It will be the fourth movie he’s directed, joining The White Crow, The Invisible Woman, and Coriolanus.