(L to R) Hugh Grant performs Forge in ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ from Paramount Pictures and eOne.
Hugh Grant, a person not usually recognized for starring in horror movies –– please, no jokes about ‘Nine Months’ or ‘Mickey Blue Eyes’ –– is taking a uncommon dip into scary territory for a brand new movie.
He’s boarding ‘Heretic’ which has a script from, and will likely be directed by, ‘A Quiet Place’ duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods for arthouse movie specialists A24.
(L to R) Andie MacDowell and Hugh Grant backstage through the reside ABC telecast of the ninety fifth Oscars® on the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.
What’s the story of ‘Heretic’?
With the main points and offers nonetheless all coming collectively, ‘Heretic’ continues to be largely a thriller at this level. Still, Deadline has heard that it’s rumored to heart on two younger ladies of religion who’re lured right into a cat-and-mouse recreation within the residence of an eccentric man.
Grant, until he’s actually taking an opportunity this time, is almost definitely taking part in the eccentric. We can nicely think about him switching from charming to creepy.
It’s the most recent challenge from Beck and Woods, who final co-wrote and co-directed sci-fi movie ‘65’, which noticed Adam Driver as an astronaut from one other planet crash-landing on Earth through the time of the dinosaurs.
A24 would possibly seem an unlikely touchdown spot for his or her new outing, however the firm has by no means shied away from style, and noticed ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ take off to box office and Oscar success.
When he’s not busy being snarky and obscure on crimson carpets, Grant has been having fun with one thing of a renaissance in his profession of late, thanks partly to a vanity-free and generally showstopping flip as preening performer Phoenix Buchanan in 2017’s ‘Paddington 2’ and his change to a extra villainous aspect with the likes of Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’ and ‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’. He additionally tapped right into a darker side in HBO miniseries ‘The Undoing’ taking part in the dishonest husband of Nicole Kidman.
Hugh Grant in StudioCanal’s ‘Paddington 2.’
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More lately, he was smooth-talking conman Forge Fitzwilliam in ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’, chewing the surroundings and proving to be one of many highlights of a movie not in need of them.
The enjoyable profession decisions are persevering with as later this 12 months, he’ll be seen as, of all issues, an Oompa-Loompa, reverse Timothée Chalamet in Warner Bros.’ origin story prequel movie ‘Wonka’. That movie, due out on December fifteenth, was directed by ‘Paddington’s Paul King.
In maintaining with the quirkiness, one other movie awaiting launch (this time by way of Netflix) is Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Unfrosted’ the story of rival cereal corporations vying to create what turned the Pop-Tart.
Grant can even be again on HBO with ‘The Regime’, a drama with satirical underpinnings starring Kate Winslet that follows the unravelling of an authoritarian regime. That one is about to reach subsequent 12 months however doesn’t have a selected date but.
Like ‘The Regime’, it’s too early for ‘Heretic’, however we are able to’t think about it a lot earlier than late 2024 on the earliest, notably with the writers’ strike nonetheless in full swing.
(L to R) Regé-Jean Page, Sophia Lillis, Michelle Rodriguez, Chris Pine and Hugh Grant from Paramount’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ at San Diego Comic-Con 2022.
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