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Lucien Laviscount, Chloe Bailey, Lynn Whitfield & Anna Diop To Star In Thriller From Malcolm D. Lee And Blumhouse
EXCLUSIVE: Chloe Bailey, Lynn Whitfield, Lucien Laviscount, Anna Diop, Romy Woods and Coco Jones are set to star in a new untitled thriller for Universal Pictures with Malcolm D. Lee directing. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Alan McElroy and Matthew Mixon penned the script. Producers include Tyler Perry, Jason Blum, Lee, Tim Palen and Dominique Telson. Shaun Sutton, Philip Waley, and McElroy are executive producers. The film is produced by Peachtree & Vine and Blumhouse in association with Blackmaled Productions. More from Deadline Jacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation 'Outer Dark' — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market Brie Larson To Star In 'Wild Ride' Creature Horror 'Fail-Safe' For Producer J.J. Abrams; FilmNation Launching Hot Project At Cannes Market Everything We Know About 'Emily In Paris' Season 5 So Far With Girls Trip, Lee made history as the first filmmaker to helm a feature with an all-Black creative team — both in front of and behind the camera — that grossed more than $100 million at the domestic box office. His acclaimed Peacock limited series The Best Man: The Final Chapters became the first original series on the platform to break into Nielsen's Top 10. Bailey is best known for her Grammy-nominated work in the group Chloe x Halle, and she also launched a standout solo career with her breakout hit 'Have Mercy' and her 2023 debut album In Pieces. On screen, Bailey she appeared in Freeform's Grown-ish; was the lead in the film Praise This, which earned her an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress; and played Marissa in Donald Glover's provocative series Swarm. Laviscount is best known for his breakout role in Netflix's global hit Emily in Paris, where he stars opposite Lily Collins. He joined the series in Season 2 as a fan favorite and reprised his role in Seasons 3 and 4 — the latter debuting at No. 1 on Netflix's Global Top 10 and reaching the Top 10 in 93 countries. He recently wrapped People We Meet on Vacation for Netflix and Temple Hill, based on the bestselling novel by Emily Henry. Whitfield is celebrated for her portrayal of Josephine Baker in HBO's The Josephine Baker Story and for her starring role as Lady Mae in OWN's Greenleaf, a collaboration with Oprah Winfrey. Her film credits include Eve's Bayou, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Madea's Family Reunion, Nappily Ever After and Vacation Friends. Diop starred in the horror film Nanny, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and earned her widespread critical acclaim. She also appeared in Jordan Peele's hit film Us and most recently starred in The Book of Clarence. On television, she is best known for her breakout role as Starfire in the DC series Titans, which aired for four seasons on HBO Max. Bailey Bailey is represented by CAA. Whitfield is represented by Innovative Artists, Anonymous Content, and Del Shaw Moonves. Laviscount is represented by Gersh, Waring McKenna and Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk. Diop is represented by CAA, Untitled and Jackoway Austen. Woods is represented by Coast to Coast Talent Group and Apex Talent Group. Jones is represented by WME, SOTA, The Lede Company, M88 and Fox Rothschild. Lee and Blackmailed Productions are represented by IAG, Del Shaw, Moonves, and Bazan Entertainment. Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Nine Perfect Strangers' Season 2 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Come Out? Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far
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3 days ago
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Jacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation ‘Outer Dark' — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market
EXCLUSIVE: Here's a very cool project bubbling at this year's Cannes market. We can reveal that Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, two of the industry's buzziest young names, are set to star in Outer Dark, a film based on iconic author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel. More from Deadline Tribeca Title 'Dog of God' Acquired For France As Media Move Launches Sales - Cannes Market 'Dossier 137' Director On Cannes Ban Of His Film's Actor Accused Of Sexual Assault: "I Understand Their Decision" International Insider: Cruise In Cannes; Standing Ovations; Chinese Box Office Future The 'dark fairytale', which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning Son Of Saul filmmaker Laszlo Nemes. Outer Dark is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother's baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear. Nemes wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, while Mike Goodridge of London-based Good Chaos is producing alongside Nemes; executive producers are Ilene Feldman, Ori Eisen of Original Films and Nicolas Gonda. Good Chaos and Nemes have the book-to-screen rights. Goodridge, the Triangle Of Sadness co-producer who has Left-Handed Girl playing at this year's festival, is among the team on the ground in Cannes in early talks with potential partners for the project. It's not formally on sale here but there are likely to be plenty of suitors to finance or get behind it. We understand the actors really sparked to the material and both are coming off big successes. It's fitting stuff for both: Depp is coming off Oscar-nominated box office hit Nosferatu, another dark fairytale, while Euphoria and Priscilla star Elordi is coming off excellent notices for The Narrow Road To The Deep North and will next be seen as the creature in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein, as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights and in Ridley Scott's Dog Stars, which is in production. Laszlo Nemes said: 'Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy's evocative and cosmological work. Joined by two magnetic actors, I now feel it's possible. The extraordinary source material is a profound inspiration to build a unique world that vibrates with life and death at the same time. An exciting road-movie, a terrible and beautiful journey into the labyrinth of the human soul – this is the ambition I have for Outer Dark.' Nemes recently completed his third film Orphan (also produced by Goodridge) which is scheduled to premiere at a festival later this year before its October 23 release in Hungary. He will next shoot Moulin, a French-language feature about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin which is being sold at the Cannes market by 193. Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger are starring for producer Alain Goldman. Alongside Orphan, Goodridge is also in post-production on Edward Berger's next film, The Ballad Of A Small Player, starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Cormac McCarthy's lauded novels adapted for the screen include Oscar winner No Country For Old Men and Viggo Mortensen starrer The Road. Elordi is repped by Gersh and Goodman, Genow. Depp is repped by CAA, Markham, Froggatt & Irwin, Agence Adequat, and Lichter, Grossman. Nemes is represented by CAA and Ilene Feldman Management. Best of Deadline 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far
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3 days ago
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Jacob Elordi On Playing A Haunted POW In ‘The Narrow Road To The Deep North' And His Growing Zeal For Acting As He Tees Up ‘Frankenstein' & ‘Wuthering Heights'
Jacob Elordi keeps waiting for the day he might lose his love for acting. It hasn't happened yet, and he hopes it never will. In fact, the Australian actor, who most recently played a haunted prisoner of war in Justin Kurzel's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, feels like he's just getting started. More from Deadline Jacob Elordi & Lily-Rose Depp To Star In Cormac McCarthy Adaptation 'Outer Dark' — Red Hot Project Bubbling At The Cannes Market Guillermo Del Toro's 'Frankenstein' Debuts First Teaser At Netflix Tudum 'Carrie' Series Officially Sets Summer Howell As Lead; Samantha Sloyan, Josie Totah & Amber Midthunder Among Cast 'I'm just incredibly open to being a part of the circus right now, in a way. I really love being an actor. I don't know, silly as that it may sound, the love for it just keeps going deeper and deeper,' he tells Deadline. In The Narrow Road to the Deep North, adapted from Richard Flanagan's novel, Elordi stars as Lieutenant-Colonel Dorrigo Evans, a celebrated World War II hero who is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair with Amy Mulvaney (Odessa Young) that sustained him through the darkest of times. In the interview below, he breaks down his process for Narrow Road and also speaks about his upcoming roles in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights. DEADLINE:Snowtown. JACOB ELORDI: Well, the whole movie was something I hadn't seen before. The kind of loose, handheld, intimate way that it was shot … and those colors and those kinds of houses, it all kind of had a great impact. But there's a couple of scenes that stand out. There was this one incredible moment where his brother comes home and something happens in the living room of their home, and Justin, just kind of sat on the door with the camera. He didn't move from the door. He didn't cut. He just sat on the door and he let this kind of horrific, Cain and Abel act play out just in this one shot. I remember never really being able to forget that shot. DEADLINE: The Narrow Road to the Deep North? ELORDI: I think the intrigue to me from working with him was how much space and freedom he gives the performer. He doesn't let the camera or the lights or the sound get in the way of the performance, which is not to say that happens all the time, but he's very particular about the performance coming before everything, which as an actor is like as close as you can get to a theater experience on screen. I was taken by how kind of gentle he was. It all makes sense after meeting him and then watching his films back. But he has such a sensitivity with his actors and with the frame and with his work. DEADLINE: ELORDI: Just as an actor, yeah, I think you always want to have time to obsess over the script and get your little mind map going and see how many things you can join and what you can come up with. But I have to also say I've learned from experience now, like Frankenstein, for example, I only got cast in that just before the film. So you kind of hit the ground running. It was figuring the film out as we shot a little bit. That, in its own way, was a totally freeing experience as well. So I kind of don't know which I prefer. I think it depends on the project and where you're at. DEADLINE: ELORDI: Well, Dorrigo is, on paper, the embodiment of stoicism and stillness. I was glad to have like a year to prepare to sort of slow my internal world down a little bit and try and find that kind of patience. I'm glad that I didn't have to rush into that. DEADLINE: ELORDI: We shot separately. We shot what we called, on the set, the 'Summer of Love.' That was the first portion of filming, and that was a few weeks, which was pre-war. So I still had relatively okay body weight, and I was given the opportunity as a performer to have all of the memories that Dorrigo takes with him into the camps for real. We wrapped that and had a six-week break over Christmas, in which all the boys had to go into a boot camp, and we lost all our weight. Then towards the end of January, I believe, we came back in and then shot the prisoner camps. So I was lucky enough to have this long run of experience as the character, and then be met with the contrast of the death camps. So I got to play it chronologically, which is not something you get to do often when you're shooting. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, for me, it was so immediate, because I'd spent the years stripping my life back a little bit so that when I got to filming, I just got to live in it every day. My reality really was what was sort of happening for him in the story and and in his life — not in some way where it was like some hokey pokey method thing, but more just when everyone around you all put our central focus into achieving this one goal, something happens on a production, and it happens rarely, and you fall into this kind of fugue state together. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, not necessarily challenging. It's a rewarding process to sort of internalize things and contemplate things and just watch for a while and listen. There's a great gift in listening. As an actor, when you think about the craft of acting, to be able to just sit there and actually force yourself to listen instead of trying to do something or be something, is a really freeing experience. What I found in the silence is that when you do hold things in, and when you consider things, the weight of them feels so much more present than when you kind of just say how you feel all the time. So it was kind of cathartic in a way, I suppose. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, it's interesting, because it is ever-present in men, especially from that generation, and especially Australian men from that generation, our fathers and grandfathers. I think a lot of people can see the similarities there, and especially in return from war as well. Some people's dads came home and never spoke again. I don't have a social comment on it, but it's interesting. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I mean, either fortunately or unfortunately, as a performer, you end up becoming like a cliché performer. So I spend a great deal of time, probably far too much time, sitting and looking inward. The best thing about performance for me, is the cliché — to lose yourself in somebody else's life. And I always told myself I would punch myself if I said that, but there is this very real thing that happens when you slow down and you consider things from places that you wouldn't usually. You have the liberty to consider, and then you get to attempt to experience them. There's no way you get to do all of that and it doesn't affect you in some kind of way, either like a therapy or, for some people, maybe like a curse. I don't know, but I find it incredibly cathartic. DEADLINE: ELORDI: The funny thing is, they keep changing — the experience that I had seven years ago on a film, how I felt about it immediately to how I feel about it now, and what I've sort of learned from it. The moments where I didn't think I was learning something, I was. For example, I just worked with Guillermo del Toro, and it feels like he planted these unconscious Easter eggs in my brain. So it's an ongoing thing, but the kind of filmmakers that I've worked with whose work I love, they're the people that have made the greatest change in me. I think it's just because you're a part of somebody's singular artistic vision, you know? There's no feeling quite like that for me. DEADLINE: ELORDI: I get more and more intrigued every day by the freedom that I have to act at the moment. So, it's nothing specific. It's more just every day I keep thinking I'm going to not feel like it, and every day I wake up and I just want to keep acting. So I'm just incredibly open to being a part of the circus right now, in a way. I really love being an actor. I don't know, silly as that it may sound, the love for it just keeps going deeper and deeper. I hope I can keep working with filmmakers that I love, and then also find new filmmakers and new ways of making movies. It's endlessly exciting. DEADLINE:Frankenstein? ELORDI: I mean, I think Frankenstein is an epic fairy tale. I genuinely don't think I've seen something like this. It's beautiful. I'm quite anxious for people to see it. I'm intrigued for everybody to see the creature for the first time. It's really, really beautiful work by Mike Hill. DEADLINE:Wuthering Heights? ELORDI: I've only seen small clips of it and still photos, but it's one of the most pleasingly photographed films that I've ever seen. It's genuinely astonishing. The screenplay that Emerald wrote is genius, and Linus Sandgren's work on the camera is untouchable. I'm so excited by the size of these movies. They're movies that make you want to go to the cinema. I haven't seen something that punches that big in a really long time. DEADLINE: ELORDI: This thing kind of just happened naturally, where I got the books again, because I've read them in my life, and something happened in this process where I just I read them brand new, each page with a pencil out. It just brought fresh ideas to my mind. I didn't have any kind of preconceived ideas. They're just these really rich characters, and I was really just excited to play them. I remember I went to Guillermo, and I said, 'Which version of the book should I read?' He sent me all this stuff. And then I was like, 'and do you think I should watch the movies?' And he looked at me like I was crazy. He was like, 'They're just movies. They can't f*cking hurt you.' I remember him saying that. Then I just dove in and realized that nothing could bog me down or get in my way, because I was so excited by the process. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More Everything We Know About 'Happy Gilmore 2' So Far
Geek Tyrant
22-05-2025
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Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp Team Up for Cormac McCarthy's OUTER DARK Adaptation — GeekTyrant
Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp are set to star in a new adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's haunting 1968 novel Outer Dark , and it's shaping up to be a bold, unsettling ride. Directed by Oscar-winning Son of Saul filmmaker László Nemes, Outer Dark marks his first English-language feature and is set against the bleak backdrop of Depression-era Appalachia. It tells the story of 'a young woman who bears her brother's baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. 'The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear.' Described as a 'dark fairytale,' the film is expected to begin shooting in 2026. Clara Royer, who previously collaborated with Nemes, co-wrote the screenplay. Nemes said in a statement: 'Since reading Outer Dark the first time, it has been my dream to make it into a film, and to find the appropriate cinematic language that would do justice to Cormac McCarthy's evocative and cosmological work. Joined by two magnetic actors, I now feel it's possible. 'The extraordinary source material is a profound inspiration to build a unique world that vibrates with life and death at the same time. An exciting road-movie, a terrible and beautiful journey into the labyrinth of the human soul – this is the ambition I have for Outer Dark.' The cast is more than up for the material. Lily-Rose Depp is coming off the back of Nosferatu , a gothic horror that earned critical acclaim and became a box office success. Meanwhile, Elordi, following acclaimed turns in Priscilla and The Narrow Road To The Deep North , is already locked into a stacked slate: he'll appear next as the monster in Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein , as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights , and in Ridley Scott's upcoming Dog Stars . Nemes recently wrapped Orphan , his third feature, and he's also prepping Moulin , a WWII drama about French resistance hero Jean Moulin. For fans of Cormac McCarthy's bleak, poetic brand of American gothic, which include No Country For Old Men and The Road , this new film has serious promise. Source: Deadline
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17-05-2025
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Jacob Elordi, Lily-Rose Depp to Star in "Outer Dark" Film Adaptation
Yara Sameh Jacob Elordi and Lily-Rose Depp, two of the buzziest young names in the acting industry, are set to star in "Outer Dark," a film based on iconic author Cormac McCarthy's (No Country For Old Men) dark 1968 novel. The 'dark fairytale', which is being lined up to shoot in 2026, will mark the English-language debut of Oscar-winning "Son Of Saul" filmmaker Laszlo Nemes. "Outer Dark" is set in Appalachia during the Great Depression and tells of a young woman who bears her brother's baby. The brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. The sister discovers this lie and sets out to find the baby for herself. But as both brother and sister separately move through the countryside, three terrifying strangers are on their tails, wreaking death and destruction wherever they appear. Nemes wrote the screenplay with Clara Royer, while Mike Goodridge of London-based Good Chaos is producing alongside Nemes; executive producers are Ilene Feldman, Ori Eisen of Original Films and Nicolas Gonda. Good Chaos and Nemes have the book-to-screen rights. Goodridge, the "Triangle Of Sadness" co-producer who has "Left-Handed Girl" playing at this year's festival, is among the team on the ground in Cannes in early talks with potential partners for the project. Depp is coming off Oscar-nominated box office hit "Nosferatu" another dark fairytale, while Euphoria and Priscilla star Elordi is coming off excellent notices for "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" and will next be seen as the creature in Guillermo Del Toro's "Frankenstein", as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" and in Ridley Scott's "Dog Stars", which is in production. Nemes recently completed his third film "Orphan" (also produced by Goodridge) which is scheduled to premiere at a festival later this year before its October 23 release in Hungary. He will next shoot "Moulin", a French-language feature about WWII resistance fighter Jean Moulin which is being sold at the Cannes market by 193. Gilles Lellouche and Lars Eidinger are starring for producer Alain Goldman. Goodridge is also in post-production on Edward Berger's next film, "The Ballad Of A Small Player", starring Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton. Cormac McCarthy's lauded novels adapted for the screen include Oscar winner "No Country For Old Men" and Viggo Mortensen starrer "The Road." read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers Lifestyle Pistachio and Raspberry Cheesecake Domes Recipe News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War
