Kevin Spacey to star in his first big movie after sexual abuse scandal

kevin spacey He will star in the movie “1242 - Gateway to the West”, his first major production since 2017, when the actor was accused and sued multiple times for sexual abuse.

The winner of two Oscar awards will be at the helm of this historical drama in an international co-production with capital from the United Kingdom, Hungary and Mongolia, media outlets specializing in Hollywood.

This film tells the story of Batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and one of the commanders in chief of the Mongol Empire.who was assigned the responsibility of invading Europe but ended up failing.

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

A film that is expected to start shooting in October this year, under the direction of Hungarian filmmaker Peter Soons, with a script by Aaron Horvath and Joan Lane, and Bill Chamberlain and Kornel Sipos as main producers.

Since the protagonist of “House of Cards” or “American Beauty” was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017, he has only lavished himself timidly 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.

Spacey’s film career was twisted after a score of young people sued him for allegedly sexually abusing them at the London Old Vic theater between 1995 and 2013.

In addition, in 2020 he was denounced by an anonymous man in New York alleging that the film producer would have acted in the same way with him during the 1980s, when the plaintiff was 14 years old.

Spacey’s last major appearance on the billboard was with “Billionaire Boys Club” (2018), directed by James Cox, which was already relegated to failure at the box office due to the scandals of the American interpreter.