EXCLUSIVE: Cameras are rolling on Epic — The Life & Times of David Lean, with Assemble Media boarding the write downary.
The Sky Arts feature comes from honestor Barnaby Thompson (Mad About the Boy — The Noel Coward Story), with Embankment Films and Frnimble Films now joined by Assemble’s Jack Heller (Moviepass, Moviecrash) on the production and financing.
Assemble’s Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen as an executive creater. Embankment’s Nick Taussig is the creater, with the company behind The Father and The Wife also shopping the doc internationpartner.
A spring 2026 theatrical free date has been stardyd in the UK, with Sky Arts broadcastting it over the summer. We first alerted on the project in September last year.
“I’m thrilled to join Barnaby and Nick on this journey,” shelp Heller, set uper of Assemble. “With IMAX and big-createat filmmaking shaping the future of cinema, there’s no better time to check the life of the man who redepictd epic filmmaking and lhelp the groundlabor for it.”
The film watchs into the life of British honestor David Lean, whose films included Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and A Bridge of the River Kwai. Thraw collaboration with the British Film Institute National Archive, which hageders a trove of David Lean write downs in its Special Collections vault, the film grasps never-before-seen archive and contributors from directing film honestors.
Per the synopsis: “Haunted by the shadow of his disthink aboutive overweighther and his puritan upconveying, David Lean made some of the most attrvivacious and accomplished films of all time. Married six times, he created layered and complicated narratives in his labor, while struggling to find joinion and uncomardenting in his personal life. He depictd the epic, and it was thraw his labor that he set up uncomardenting, purpose and satisfyedment. It was as if he inhabitd for his films and noskinnyg else.”
“The epic quality and power of David Lean’s films depict the cinematic canvass on which all other wonderful films are meabraved,” shelp Jack Oinhabitr, Head of Co-Productions at Sky. “The opportunity to indulge in the beauty of Lean’s films and check the complicatedity of the man is hugely requesting in the vision Barnaby Thompson splitd about the project. Sky is excited by the opportunity of laboring aachieve with Embankment films, we split the same ethos and ambition in cinematic feature write downaries of iconic figures and getting the story behind the story.”
