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Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy lands another role in a historical film following his Academy Award-winning performance in Oppenheimer as he joins an upcoming Universal film.

Per Deadline, Murphy will star in and produce the upcoming historical pic, Blood Runs Coal, which adapts Mark Bradley's titular book, Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. Spectre's Jes Butterworth and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny's John-Henry Butterworth will adapt the screenplay, having previously collaborated on Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow. Murphy will produce alongside Alan Moloney via Big Things Films.

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Set in the 1960s in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, Blood Runs Coal chronicles a corrupt American labor union leader, Tony Boyle, who successfully masterminds the assassination of his rival,...

Exclusive: Two nights before Cillian Murphy won the Best Actor Oscar for the Universal Pictures blockbuster Oppenheimer, the studio completed a pre-emptive acquisition for the Mark A. Bradley book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America. It’s an epic story of a corrupt union leader who murders a rival and is taken down by the lawyer son of the slain coal miner. It will be scripted as a starring and producing vehicle for Murphy.

Jez Butterworth will write the script with John-Henry Butterworth. That duo worked together on Edge of Tomorrow. There is a lot here for them to mine.

Blood Runs Coal takes place in the late 1960s in the coal mines of Pennsylvania and chronicles one of the most infamous crimes in the history of organized labor.