Steven Spielberg Reteams With Mark Rylance For 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,' 2017 Release Date Eyed

It's official: Steven Spielberg and Mark Rylance have a bromance. The respected British actor took home an Oscar for his first effort with Spielberg, "Bridge Of Spies," he has the title role in the director's summer blockbuster "The BFG," and the pair have now found yet another movie to work on together.

Deadline reports that Rylance will star in the adaptation of  David Kertzer's book "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara." Spielberg first became attached to direct the project two years ago, with Tony Kushner ("Lincoln," "Munich") writing the 1858-set story about a young Jewish boy who is taken from his home, raised Catholic, and becomes a priest. Here's the full book synopsis from Amazon: 

Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched...