After five years away from the screen, Kevin Spacey returns to the cinema with the film “1242 – Gateway to the West”, his first major production following being denounced in 2017 for sexual abuse.
The winner of two Oscars will direct this historical drama in an international co-production with capital from the United Kingdom, Hungary and Mongolia.
Tape Batu Khan tells the storygrandson of Genghis Khan and one of the commanders in chief of the Mongol empire, who was assigned the responsibility of invading Europe but failed in the attempt.
On this occasion, Spacey will share a cast with actors such as Eric Roberts, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Jeremy Neumark and Genevieve Florence.
A film that is expected to start shooting in October this year, under the direction of Hungarian filmmaker Peter Soons, with a script by Aaron Horvath and Joan Lane, and Bill Chamberlain and Kornel Sipos as main producers.
Spacey’s film career went awry following regarding twenty young sued him for allegedly sexually abusing them at the London Old Vic theater between 1995 and 2013.
In addition, in 2020 he was denounced by an anonymous man in New York alleging that the film producer would have acted in the same way with him during the 1980s, when the plaintiff was 14 years old.
