Oscar-winner Christian Bale will star in a film adaptation of the Vanity Fair article, "The Church of the Living Dangerously", which concerns a drug-smuggling preacher.
New Regency acquired the movie rights to the 2019 article and hired Oscar winner Charles Randolph to write the script and David Kushner to direct.
Bale will also produce the movie alongside the studio and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson of The Gotham Group, which will be executive produced by Randolph, Kushner, and Margaret Riley.
Bale is set to play John Lee Bishop, who experienced a difficult childhood through which his uncles forced him to fight other kids in the neighborhood for their amusement.
Bishop became the pastor of a Portland megachurch and soon grew popular and quite wealthy, however, he couldn't handle it well and soon developed an addiction to alcohol and painkillers. His son, David, had also developed a meth and heroin habit.
The preacher in an effort not to fail his son and to better understand the power the drugs held over his son, Bishop began to the same drugs and eventually began smuggling drugs for a Mexican cartel.
He was busted after 20 runs across the border and sentenced to five years in prison.
New Regency's deal includes the life rights of Bishop and his son, who helped save his father's life.
On the other hand, Bale is set to star as Gorr the God Butcher in Taika Waititi's Marvel movie "Thor: Love and Thunder".
He will also be seen in Scott Cooper's Netflix movie "The Pale Blue Eye", which marks his first producing credit.
Bale recently wrapped David O. Russell's star-studded New Regency movie.
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