At its core stands the character of Steve, the head teacher, as he faces a long, emotionally charged day filled with professional and psychological challenges within a tense and complex environment.

Cillian Murphy has played a physicist, a supervillain, and a gangster: Now he’s playing Steve. Based on Max Porter’s bestselling novel Shy, Steve is the story of a head teacher facing the impending closure of the reform school where he works, told in parallel with the struggle of one of his students (Jay Lycurgo).

Steve. A reimagining of Max Porter's bestseller Shy, starring Academy Award® winner Cillian Murphy and directed by Tim Mielants. In select theaters from September 19 and on Netflix October 3.

The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.

A documentary crew arrives at Stanton Woods, a reform school for troubled teenagers, primarily to discuss whether such special private schools deserve the taxpayers’ money. Directed by Tim Mielants, Steve, as the title suggests, is about Steve (Cillian Murphy), the headteacher at the school, and we get to witness a day in his life and watch everything descend into a state of complete chaos ...

Steve is one of the nine default skins players can use in Minecraft, and the first to be introduced. The character originated from Zombie Town, an unreleased game developed by Notch in 2009 prior to Minecraft beginning development, and has frequently appeared in subsequent Minecraft media.