We’re simply going to manifest on this planet that Wagner Moura and Kristen Stewart should’ve met at our IndieWire Honors ceremony final 12 months, and now they’re starring in a film collectively.
In his first position since being Oscar-nominated for “The Secret Agent,” Moura will star in “Flesh of the Gods,” which is the following movie from “Mandy” director Panos Cosmatos. Again when the package deal was introduced in 2024, Stewart was hooked up to star alongside Oscar Isaac, however Moura will now slip into the Isaac position, a person with information of the venture instructed IndieWire.
A24 has additionally picked up the U.S. distribution rights to “Flesh of the Gods,” which is described as a vampire thriller written by Andrew Kevin Walker (“Se7en”) based mostly on a narrative by Walker and Cosmatos.
The thought again in 2024 was that Stewart after which Isaac would play a rich married couple who hit up a bunch of raves in ’80s Los Angeles, solely to fulfill a mysterious girl who seduces them right into a “glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills, and violence.” Cosmatos on the time described it as, very similar to Los Angeles itself, a movie that “inhabits the liminal realm between fantasy and nightmare…Each propulsive and hypnotic, ‘Flesh’ will take you on a sizzling rod pleasure trip deep into the glittering coronary heart of hell.”
Seems like our form of film. And the irony isn’t misplaced on us that this movie represents Stewart’s return to vampire films since breaking out with “Twilight.”
Adam McKay and Betsy Koch are producing the movie for McKay’s HyperObject Industryies banner, and Jonas Katzenstein and Maximillian Leo are producing for augenschein Filmproduktion. Stewart can also be producing with Maggie McLean for Nevermind Footage.
XYZ serves as government producers and as international gross sales brokers on the movie.
Moura gained the Golden Globe for Greatest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Movement Image — Drama and gained the Greatest Actor prize ultimately 12 months’s Cannes for his work in “The Secret Agent.” That is additionally a reunion with A24 after he starred within the studio’s “Civil Struggle” in 2024.
Moura is represented by WME, imPRint, and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole.
Deadline first reported the information.
