Cillian Murphy, Daniel Craig in Talks to Star in Damien Chazelle’s Next Movie

Cillian Murphy and Daniel Craig are in talks to star in an untitled prison drama movie from “La La Land” director Damien Chazelle.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker will write and direct the untitled project for Paramount Pictures.

Chazelle is also producing with Olivia Hamilton through their company, Wild Chickens Productions. If Murphy and Craig’s deals close, production is aiming to start later this year.

The film reunites Chazelle with Paramount, which funded the director’s prior theatrical swing, 2022’s “Babylon.”

The ode to showbiz, starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, became an epic box office disaster with $63 million worldwide against its $80 million budget. 

Chazelle’s other film credits include “Whiplash” and “First Man.”

Chazelle set a first-look deal with Paramount in 2022. The studio announced in 2024 that Chazelle was working on a new movie — a biopic about stunt performer Evel Knievel led by Leonardo DiCaprio — but the filmmaker pivoted his attention after DiCaprio dropped out.

Instead, Chazelle will have to settle for working with other A-list talent.

Murphy recently won an Oscar for playing the theoretical physicist who developed the atomic bomb in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”

Meanwhile, Craig, who recently retired as James Bond, will appear next in Rian Johnson’s third “Knives Out” mystery — titled “Wake Up Dead Man” — and Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia” adaptation.