Daniel Radcliffe is on a bit of a New York City historical/biopic jag. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor will star as Washington Roebling in Brooklyn Bridge, a film about the improbable construction of one of the most sublime feats of architecture in the world.

The film is being produced by Christine Vachon, who also produced Kill Your Darlings, in which Radcliffe played a young Allen Ginsburg.

Inspired by true events, [Brooklyn Bridge] details the story of a brilliant but inexperienced engineer who is left to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when his father passes away. Besieged by calamity, danger and doubt, his obsession to get the job done threatens his health and his family until he discovers an improbable ally in his charming and shrewd wife.

It's unclear what the script is based on, but David McCullough's The Great Bridge is the definitive account of the circumstances around the bridge's construction. We will continue to pimp the book because it is superb.

The story is about the Civil War, industrialization, the corrupt heart of America's greatest city, sinking giant slabs of rock into impossibly deep trenches dug by the brute strength, sex, glory, the bends, the perfect fusion of intellect and spirit in an imperfect marriage; the fucking Brooklyn Bridge.

Surely this film will do it justice.