According to Deadline, Golden Globe winner Hugh Grant is in negotiations for the main position in A24’s upcoming horror film Heretic. The venture hails from A Quiet Place scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. This would mark Grant’s first horror venture in three a long time since 1993’s Night Train to Venice. Five years prior, he additionally starred in Ken Russell’s The Lair of the White Worm.
What is Heretic about?
Heretic will probably be written and directed by Beck and Woods. The filmmaking duo not too long ago collaborated on Adam Driver-led sci-fi thriller 65. Beck and Woods additionally served as government producers in twentieth Century Studios’ movie adaptation of Stephen King’s The Boogeyman (now in theaters.)
The venture will reportedly observe the story of “two young women of faith who are lured into a cat-and-mouse game in the home of an eccentric man.”
Grant most not too long ago starred in Paramount Pictures’ shock blockbuster film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. He will subsequent be seen in Warner Bros.’ musical prequel Wonka, which is able to heart across the origins of the titular chocolate manufacturing unit proprietor from Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In addition, the Four Weddings and a Funeral vet can be connected to star reverse Kate Winslet in HBO’s upcoming miniseries The Regime.
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