Kevin Spacey will star in the film “1242 – Gateway to the West”, his first major production since 2017, when he was accused and sued multiple times for sexual abuse.

The winner of the two Oscars will direct this historic drama in an international co-production with capital from the United Kingdom, Hungary and Mongolia, special Hollywood media reported.

This film tells the story of Batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and one of the chief commanders of the Mongol empire, who was assigned responsibility for the invasion of Europe but ultimately failed.

On this occasion, Kevin Spacey will share a cast with actors such as Eric Roberts, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Jeremy Neumark and Genevieve Florence.

Shooting of the film is expected to begin in October this year.directed by Hungarian filmmaker Peter Soons, with screenplay by Aaron Horvath and Joan Lane, and Bill Chamberlain and Kornel Sipos as lead producers.

Since the star of the Netflix series House of Cards and the movie “American Beauty”, among many other productions, was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017, she only values ​​herself on the big screen as part of the cast of “L ‘uomo Che Disegno Dio” (2021), a film directed by Franco Nero and without commercial distribution in Hollywood.

The lawsuits that revolved around his career

Spacey’s film career was in turmoil afterwards twenty young people sued him for allegedly sexually abusing them at the London theater Old Vic, between 1995 and 2013.

In addition, in 2020 he was attacked by an unknown man in New York who says the film’s producer acted the same way towards him in the 1980s, when the plaintiff was 14 years old.

In fact, Kevin Spacey is experiencing a moment of tremendous success in his career thanks to the great interpretation he made of Frank Underwood, the main character of “House of cards”, and that situation is broken.

This is when the producers of the acclaimed series on Netflix decided to remove him from that fiction, after accusations of sexual abuse in which the actor had been the target.

So, Kevin Spacey starred in “House of cards” for five seasons and in the sixth, he was removed. To put an end to the story, although it wasn’t the first planned, the lead role was left to Robin Wright, the actress who forms the role of Claire Underwood, wife of Frank Underwood.

In cinematographic matters, Spacey’s last great billboard appearance included “Billionaire Boys Club” (2018), a film directed by James Cox, which was then relegated to the box office as a result of scandals that ensued. when the actor. He was showered with complaints about alleged sexual abuse. Source: There is information from EFE.

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