Saturday; July; 16, 2016 : Actor Oscar Isaac is in talks to star opposite Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg's The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.

As per the reports said, “The director will start working on the true-life religious drama after he wraps the sci-fi thriller Ready Player One”

Tony Kushner is adapting the writing 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.