Fresh off the critical and commercial success of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Hugh Grant is now on board to star in Heretic, a new horror movie in development at A24. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who penned A Quiet Place together, are writing the script and directing.
Plot details are mostly under wraps, but Deadline‘s sources say the film will revolve around two young women of faith who are lured into a cat-and-mouse game in the home of an eccentric man.
Grant in a horror movie sounds fascinating. He’s only ever appeared in two horror movies in his long career, and never as the lead. They were Ken Russell‘s The Lair of the White Worm, and the underseen Spanish film Rowing With The Wind. Funnily enough, both films were released in 1988, so this will be Grant’s first foray into the genre for 35 years.
Beck and Woods, in addition to writing A Quiet Place, also wrote recent sci-fi thriller 65 for Sony, as well as contributing to the script for Stephen King adaptation The Boogeyman, which is in cinemas now. So they have plenty of experience with genre movies. It will be great to see what they can do at the helm of their own.
Outside of Heretic, Grant has a number of interesting projects lined up. He’ll star alongside Kate Winslet in the upcoming Max limited series The Regime, while he’s also got a supporting role as an Oompa Loompa in the Timothée Chalamet-led Wonka movie, which is due in December.
And in 2024 he’ll appear in Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story, the comedy starring, co-written, and directed by Jerry Seinfeld and featuring a host of big names.
Akin to recent films about successful products like Air, BlackBerry, and Tetris, it tells the story of Kellogg’s and Post Consumer Brands competing to produce a breakfast pastry before the other in 1963 Michigan.
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