Oscar Isaac to join new Steven Spielberg drama

Actor Oscar Isaac is in negotiations to star opposite Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg's "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara".
The filmmaker will start working on the true-life religious drama after he wraps the sci-fi thriller "Ready Player One," reported Variety.
Tony Kushner is adapting the script based on David Kertzer's novel.
The true story centers on a 6-year-old Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy, in 1858, who was seized by the police and removed from his parents' home. He was subsequently raised as a Catholic and became a priest in the Augustinian order. Rylance will star as Pope Pius IX.