Selection studies that Al Pacino and Kiefer Sutherland are set to star in Father Joe, an motion thriller set in Nineteen Nineties Manhattan that will probably be written and produced by Luc Besson. Moreover, Ever Anderson (who performed the younger Natasha Romanoff in Black Widow) will even seem.
Sutherland stars in Father Joe as “a person of religion who wages a violent conflict in opposition to town’s prison underworld,” whereas Pacino will play a “highly effective mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s campaign.” Anderson performs a “younger lady caught between hazard and redemption beneath Joe’s steerage.” Manufacturing is about to begin filming in mid-October with Barthélémy Grossmann (Arthur: Malediction) helming the film.
In a press release, Sutherland stated, “I’ve been a fan of Luc Besson going again to ‘Subway’. As a director and a author, he has a novel capability to weave drama and motion collectively with out sacrificing both. I’m so enthusiastic about this chance to work with him as the author of ‘Father Joe’ and director Barthélémy Grossmann. I can’t wait to get began.“
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It’s been a very long time since I’ve been genuinely excited a couple of Luc Besson film. I wished so badly to like Valerian and the Metropolis of a Thousand Planets, however regardless of a number of flashes of enjoyable, it simply didn’t land for me. It wasn’t The Fifth Aspect, that’s for positive.
The latest movie from the French director was Dracula: A Love Story, a gothic horror romance starring Caleb Landry Jones as the long-lasting vampire.
Primarily based on the novel by Bram Stoker, Dracula: A Love Story follows a “Fifteenth-century prince (Jones) who denounces God after the devastating lack of his spouse. He inherits an everlasting curse: he turns into Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies destiny and demise itself, guided by a single hope – to be reunited together with his misplaced love.” From what I’ve seen, it feels (and appears) fairly harking back to Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The movie was launched in France this summer season and has largely obtained optimistic evaluations, with critics praising its grand manufacturing and give attention to Dracula’s romance. Vertical will launch the movie in North America on February 6, 2026. “This movie may be very near my coronary heart and has been a pleasure to create over the previous two years,” Besson stated in a press release. “At its core, it’s a love story—Dracula seen in a special mild, as a person looking for his misplaced love over 400 years. It’s been unimaginable to see audiences join with it world wide, and I’m thrilled to accomplice with Vertical to convey this story to North American audiences.“
