Charli XCX is set to star in and produce director Takashi Miike’s next film.
Charli XCX is reportedly due to star in and produce director Takashi Miike’s next movie
The 32-year-old popstar will lead the filmmaker’s next movie both in front and behind the camera through her production company Studio365, Variety reports.
Ross Evans – who has written ‘How to Save a Marriage’ for Sony – is due to pen the screenplay.
While no plot details or other cast members have so far been revealed about the 64-year-old director’s upcoming project, the outlet pointed out Miike is best known for depicting levels of extreme violence in his work, such as 1999’s ‘Audition’ and 2001’s ‘Ichi the Killer’.
This movie from the prolific Japanese horror filmmaker is the latest Hollywood project for Charli, who has made something of a transition from music to the silver screen.
The ‘Brat’ hitmaker is currently signed on to star in three movies – ‘100 Nights of Hero’, ‘I Want Your Sex’ and ‘The Moment’.
‘100 Nights of Hero’ – which will star Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Felicity Jones and Richard E. Grant – is an adaptation of author Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 feminist story of the same name.
The picture – which is to be directed by Julia Jackman – centres on Jerome, a neglectful husband who makes a high-stakes bet with his friend Manfred (Galitzine): if Manfred can seduce Jerome’s wife, Cherry (Monroe), within 100 nights, he gets to keep Jerome’s castle.
Unbeknownst to Jerome, however, Cherry is already in love – with her maid, Hero, as portrayed by Corrin.
As for ‘I Want Your Sex’, Charli will star alongside Olivia Wilde in the…
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