Cillian Murphy Is a Modern Mr. Chips in 'Steve's First Trailer
Irish actor Cillian Murphy, currently in the prime of his career, is charting a course followed by many before him who have achieved commercial blockbuster success, albeit with performances that are not particularly creatively fulfilling, even as they pay the bills. In the wake of his Academy Award win for Oppenheimer, he's signed on to continue in the hit Netflix franchise, Peaky Blinders, in a sequel film titled The Immortal Man. In exchange, Netflix is producing his next passion project, Steve, a small-time indie film based on the novel Shy by Max Porter.
A 1990s-era period piece set in a British boarding school, Steve intertwines the experiences of a headmaster of a last-chance reform academy, Steve, and one of the institution's newest students, Shy, played by Jay Lycurgo (I May Destroy You). Like most series set in British schools (both boarding schools and non), the story is your classic "the students taught me as I taught them" trope, as decades of Tory mismanagement of funds put the school on the "to be shuttered" list.
(As you will note, the title change indicates a shift in focus, centering on the head teacher in the film instead of the student. No, I'm not sure that bodes well either.)
