Next WB/Guy Ritchie Collaboration Set - Already Sounds Better than Man From U.N.C.L.E.

As he phases out of prep and into principal photography for Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Even studio peeps confessed, "Dude, I don’t know why they’re making this waste-of-time either!"), Guy Ritchie and Warner Brothers have begun preliminary development on what could be his next directorial feature.

The studio has optioned Empire Rising with Thomas Kelly, the novel's author, assinged to adapt it into screenplay form. The story set around the construction of the Empire Building (Hence the title) between an artist called Grace Masterson, a steelworker running guns for the IRA on the side and a bagman for then-Mayor Jimmy Walker.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter