{"id":27111,"date":"2024-11-06T15:13:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=27111"},"modified":"2024-11-06T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T20:13:13","slug":"blitz-featurette-starring-saoirse-ronan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=27111","title":{"rendered":"Blitz Featurette : Starring Saoirse Ronan, Directed by Steve McQueen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"description-copy\" class=\"description-copy\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Apple TV+<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Steve+McQueen\">Steve McQueen<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15939198\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\"><strong>Blitz<\/strong> <\/a>follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1519680\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Saoirse Ronan<\/a>) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.<\/p>\n<p>Written and directed by Academy and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafta.org\/\"> BAFTA<\/a> Award-winning McQueen, the film stars Academy and BAFTA Award nominee Ronan and newcomer Heffernan, with Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, CJ Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman and Sally Messham rounding out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>McQueen\u2019s Lammas Park produces alongside Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner of Working Title Films, Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan and Michael Schaefer for New Regency, with producers Anita Overland and Adam Somner.<\/p>\n<p>McQueen reunites with production designer Adam Stockhausen (<strong>12 Years a Slave<\/strong>, <strong>Widows<\/strong>), costume designer Jacqueline Durran (<strong>Small Axe<\/strong>), and composer <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Hans+Zimmer\">Hans Zimmer<\/a> (<strong>12 Years a Slave<\/strong>), with cinematographer Yorick Le Saux (<strong>Little Women<\/strong>) and makeup designer Naomi Donne (<strong>No Time to Die<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27112\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Blitz2.png\" alt=\"Blitz\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Blitz2.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Blitz2-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description-fields\">\n<div class=\"description-item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Apple TV+ Steve McQueen\u2019s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20471,30],"tags":[24985,8407,1351,24983,11962,5051,23817,24988,24987,4617,5735,24986,24984],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blitz Featurette : Starring Saoirse Ronan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Blitz Featurette : Follow the stories of a group of Londoners during the events of the British capital bombing in World War II.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=27111\" \/>\n<meta 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