{"id":643879,"date":"2026-06-17T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643879\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:24:12","slug":"bradley-cooper-joins-penns-january-6th-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/643879\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Cooper Joins Penn&#8217;s January 6th Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bradley-cooper-joins-penn-s-january-6th-film.jpg\" data-caption=\"Netflix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bradley-cooper-joins-penn-s-january-6th-film.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"bradley-cooper-joins-penn-s-january-6th-film\"\/><\/a>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Bradley Cooper is in talks to star in the lead role in actor\/filmmaker Sean Penn\u2019s new directorial effort \u2013 a currently untitled movie set up at Warner Bros. Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off his \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d Oscar win, Penn\u2019s feature will follow the true story of the early life of a cop who goes on to be caught up in the January 6th U.S. Capitol riots.<\/p>\n<p>Described as an unexpected story about friendship, it will see his early journey, one that led to him later becoming an American hero in the eyes of many during the 2021 insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>The project isn\u2019t being called a \u2018January 6th movie\u2019 though, as that\u2019s not the focus.  The real-life subject\u2019s identity is being kept under wraps for now.<\/p>\n<p>Penn has scripted and will direct the feature along with producing alongside John Ira Palmer and John Wildermuth.  Filming will begin mid-2027, after Cooper\u2019s commitments on the next \u201cOcean\u2019s 11\u201d film.<\/p>\n<p>Penn previously attended a public hearing of the House select committee investigating the insurrection.  He and Cooper previously starred together in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s \u201cLicorice Pizza\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/sean-penn-direct-bradley-cooper-january-6th-cop-warner-bros-1236957132\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/first-trailer-heartstopper-forever\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First Trailer: \u201cHeartstopper Forever\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/trailer-disney-animations-hexed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer: Disney Animation\u2019s \u201cHexed\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix Bradley Cooper is in talks to star in the lead role in actor\/filmmaker Sean Penn\u2019s new directorial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94966,6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-643879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bigslider","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}