Jeremy Allen White to Flee the Gestapo in Ben Stiller’s The Airman
According to CinemaDrame News Agency, Jeremy Allen White, the Emmy-winning star of The Bear, is in talks with A24 to join The Airman, a World War II drama directed by Ben Stiller.
The film is adapted from Seth Meyerowitz’s 2016 nonfiction book The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France. It tells the true story of Arthur Meyerowitz, an American turret gunner whose B-24 bomber crashed in Vichy France in 1944. Sheltered in rural villages, he met Marcel Talliander, founder of the resistance group “Morange Network,” who helped him escape the Gestapo and reach Spain after six harrowing months. The screenplay is written by Ben Shattuck, known for History of Sound.
If he signs on, White will portray Seth Meyerowitz starting in early 2027, with Stiller serving as both director and producer. Jake Gyllenhaal had previously been attached to the project in the late 2010s.
Stiller has not directed a feature film since Zoolander 2 (2015), though he later helmed episodes of the miniseries Escape at Dannemora (2018) and the dystopian series Severance.
Most recently, White portrayed Bruce Springsteen in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, which premiered at Telluride, and he has earned his third consecutive Emmy nomination for Lead Actor in a Comedy for The Bear.
