Steve the New Netflix Film With Cillian Murphy: Plot and Release Date of the Film

Cillian Murphy, nominated for an Oscar in 2024 for Oppenheimer, will star in Steve, a film produced for Netflix of which he will also be a producer. The actor launched his production company Big Things Films together with Alan Moloney. A new film is about to arrive on Netflix starring one of the most popular actors of the moment, Cillian Murphy, star of Peaky Blinders and Oppenheimer. After the success of Christopher Nolan’s film, Murphy will be the protagonist of a new Netflix feature film entitled Steve based on the novel Shy by Max Porter about the story of a principal of an institution for young, disturbed students who struggle with his mental health. Steve will be directed by Belgian director Tim Mielants, who has worked with Murphy on Peaky Blinders and Small Things Like This and written by the same author as the original book. The film’s production, however, is by Cillian Murphy and Alan Moloney with their new production company Big Things Films. But let’s go into more detail.

Steve: The Plot of the Film with Cillian Murphy

Steve tells the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenager with mental health issues. In the night, he finds himself wandering around listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt, and those who try to love him. This boy is running away from home for “very disturbed youth”, and walks listening to his night terrors, from his past and the heavy questions about his future. The Netflix film will not be a direct adaptation of the book but a retelling that puts the principal at the center of the story, exploring 24 hours of his life in which he tries to keep his students in line and struggles with his mental health at the same time.

This is a very important project for Cillian Murphy, which coincides with the debut of his production company. Murphy has already cut his teeth in the field of production as executive producer for three seasons of Peaky Blinders and also covering the same role for Small Things Like These. This film will open the Berlin International Film Festival, which will take place from Thursday 15 to Sunday 24 February 2024. Initially founded to produce Small Things Like These, Big Thing Films aims to collaborate with both emerging and established directors, actors, and screenwriters who have something new and exciting to bring to the world of cinema.

Big Things Films will deal with projects that concern both the small and the big screen and will focus on titles capable of provoking and inspiring the public with themes that are often distant from the usual ones but capable of revealing the profound essence of the human being, addressing them across different genres and formats. As for Steve, we know that the new film marking the collaboration between Cillian Murphy and Netflix will be a loose adaptation of the novel on which it is based. The story revolves around the events of a principal who, in the space of 24 crucial hours, will have to do everything to get his students in line while taking care of his increasingly precarious mental health.

Who’s in the Cast of Steve (Besides Cillian Murphy)

As for the cast of Steve, so far it has been announced that Cillian Murphy will star in the role of the eponymous character.

Steve: When it Comes out on Netflix

Netflix hasn’t set a premiere date for Steve yet, but considering filming begins in spring 2024 we expect to see Steve on Netflix in 2025.