By James White | Posted 8 May 2016

UPDATE: Isaac is now officially starring in the flm, with Gomez-Rejon confirmed to direct. It'll likely shoot once Isaac has finished his Star Wars duties for the year and reunited with Alex Garland for Annihilation.

Though he’ll be soaring across our screens next month in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the man behind Resistance pilot Poe Dameron is aiming to keep his feet planted on the ground for a future role. Oscar Isaac is considering the lead in political thriller A Foreigner.

This particular film has been bubbling away on the development stove for a while now – at one point, Matt Damon was pondering making it his directorial debut. Now, though, Me And Earl And The Dying Girl director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon is in talks for the job after dropping out of Collateral Beauty.

If he does take the role, Isaac would star in the story of a murdered Guatemalan man who, knowing that he might be killed, had set up a way to distribute videos of his killers so as to take down the corruption that had seen people similarly slaughtered before him. It’s a true story, adapted by Argo's Chris Terrio from David Grann’s New Yorker article A Murder Foretold. When it might shoot with Isaac in the lead is a little up in the air at the moment, as he’s going to be busy back in the galaxy far, far away for some of this year.

For now, Isaac is the big villain in X-Men: Apocalypse, which lands on May 19.