It’s shaping as much as be the final huge bidding conflict of 2024. And it options Glen Powell.
The actor is hooked up to star and produce Homewreckers, an erotic thriller with a sci-fi twist. It’s a brief story package deal that has a number of studios and corporations sizzling and bothered.
Legendary, Lionsgate, New Regency, Sony and Warner Bros. are among the many corporations making provides and within the combine for the challenge, which was unveiled to the city early within the week.
The unpublished three-chapter story is by Neil M. Paik, who may also write the script. Details are being saved between the sheets, however sources say that the tones are Adrian Lyne, who made steamy thriller 9½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction, and Alex Garland, whose motion pictures comparable to Ex Machina and Civil War faucet into fashionable anxieties.
This yr, sizzling new tasks hitting the Hollywood market within the post-Thanksgiving interval has been on the naked aspect, however Homewreckers is a welcome jolt.
It additionally serves as a pleasant capstone for Powell’s star-streaking yr. Anyone But You, his comedy with Sydney Sweeney, opened in late December final yr, and have become a field workplace sensation, thrusting him into the highest tiers of male actors. His romantic comedy thriller Hit Man, which he additionally co-wrote and produced, landed robust critiques and earned him a Golden Globe nomination earlier this week. And he starred in Twisters, Universal’s well-regarded replace on the Nineteen Nineties twister flick. It proved standard with summer season audiences, whipping up greater than $370 million worldwide, together with greater than $267 million domestically. All of this, whereas he develop into the poster boy for the brand new class of Hollywood stars and a resurging theatrical expertise.
A bidding involving the actor brings Powell’s yr of being needed full circle. Anyone But You, Glen? More like, Nobody But You.
Paik has a knack for turning his brief tales into coveted tasks; Reawakening, revealed by Six by Eight Press, was arrange at Amazon as a collection with Lena Waithe exec producing, additionally after a aggressive scenario. Another brief story, Rainbowfish, was arrange at Warners.
Powell is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro. Paik is repped by Untitled Entertainment.
