Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises. Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film “Phantom Thread,” the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting. “All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion,” he told W Magazine in 2017.

Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement to act in a new movie for the first time since 2017's "Phantom Thread."

In what is almost surely the year's biggest casting news, Daniel Day-Lewis has ended retirement for his own progeny. Focus Features have announced Anemone, which his son Ronan Day-Lewis, in a feature debut, is directing from a script that's co-written by his father––the actor's first such credit––and concerns "the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and

Daniel Day-Lewis will un-retire to lead son Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut 'Anemone.'