Compte tenu du Multivers, ça peut être n'importe qui, pour le coup !
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Matt Shakman (WandaVision) est pressenti pour réaliser le film, suite au départ de Jon Watts (Spider-Man : No Way Home).
The Hollywood Reporter a écrit:
‘Fantastic Four’: ‘WandaVision’ Director Matt Shakman in Talks to Helm
Following the exit of Jon Watts, Marvel's signature superhero team has found a new director.
Matt Shakman, the veteran TV director who ushered Marvel Studios into the age of television, is in early talks to make the jump to MCU features with Fantastic Four, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
Shakman became a Marvel favorite with the Emmy-winning WandaVision, the first MCU series released for Disney+. He came up as a director on FX’s long-running comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia before graduating to event storytelling with Game of Thrones. In July 2021, Paramount tapped him to direct the next Star Trek film, which is currently dated for Dec. 22, 2023. It is unclear if he will remain involved.
Other filmmakers who met on the project included Love and Monsters director Michael Matthews and Dog filmmaker Reid Carolin. The two finalists ultimately were Matthews and Shakman, according to sources.
Fantastic Four will kick off Phase 6 of Marvel’s storytelling, with the film due out Nov. 8, 2024. No casting is known, but John Krasinski, who was long fancast in the role, appeared as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, released in May. However, it was an alternative-universe version of the character, meaning it is unknown if Krasinski will continue in the role.
Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby introduced the team of Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and the Thing in the pages of Fantastic Four No. 1 in 1961. The comic reinvented the publisher, then known as Timely, and launched the Marvel Universe as a shared storytelling canvas.
The Fantastic Four is a cornerstone of the Marvel mythos but has never had a big-screen adaptation embraced by audiences. In the 1990s, Roger Corman produced a low-rent film that was never released, while 20th Century Fox released films in 2005 and 2007 that featured future Captain America actor Chris Evans as the Human Torch. (In 2010, there was even talk of a Paul Greengrass-helmed Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men crossover movie). Filmmaker Josh Trank helmed the disastrous 2015 Fantastic Four reboot, scuttling plans for more. A few years later, Disney acquired the rights to the superteam when the company purchased 20th Century Fox.
Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige first announced a new Fantastic Four film in December 2020 during a Disney investor day, with Spider-Man director Jon Watts attached to helm. (Watts later announced his departure in April 2022.) Feige has said this will not be an origin story, telling THR at San Diego Comic-Con in July, “A lot of people know this origin story. A lot of people know the basics. How do we take that and bring something that they’ve never seen before?”
Ce sera surement Zendaya ou Lucy Liu si on suit la ligne Disney actuelle voir Hunter Shafer.
Plus sérieusement, j'espère surtout qu'il vont enfin réussir là où les autres ont échoué. Faire un bon film avec les 4 Fantastiques.
Pour la susans storm racisé le film de 2005 les ont devancer étant que contrairement au personnage dans les comics Jessica Alba n'est pas blanche mais métisse ( blanche par sa mère et latina par son père) par contre c'est vrai qu'une actrice trans serait une première lol
Le scénario va être récrit par Josh Friedman (La Guerre des mondes, Snowpiercer, Avatar : La Voie de l'eau). Jeff Kaplan et Ian Springer étaient les précédents scénaristes du projet, et l'arrivée de Friedman pourrait signifier un changement de ton. Kaplan et Springer étant plus connus pour leurs scénarios de comédie, tandis que Friedman est un habitué du genre science-fiction.
The Hollywood Reporter a écrit:
‘Fantastic Four’ Movie Gets New Writer With ‘Avatar 2’ Scribe Josh Friedman (Exclusive)
Matt Shakman, who was the key director behind Marvel series 'WandaVision,' is on board to helm the feature.
Marvel’s first family is getting a rewrite. Josh Friedman, who worked on Avatar: The Way of Water and developed Snowpiercer as a TNT television series, has been tapped to write the script for Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four.
Matt Shakman, who was the key director behind Marvel series WandaVision, is on board to helm the feature that has a release date of Feb. 14, 2025, and is set to kick off Phase 6 of its storytelling universe.
Fantastic Four was the heroic team that introduced readers, and the world at large, to Marvel Comics and ushered in the Marvel Age, as the self-generated hype machine described it in the 1960s.
Written by editor Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four No. 1 brought forth Reed Richards, a scientist dedicated to his work and unafraid to push the boundaries of science; Sue Storm, his girlfriend-turned-wife; Johnny Storm, Sue’s hothead and hot-rod-loving brother; and Ben Grimm, Richards’ beefy best friend. After an unauthorized trip into space and being irradiated with cosmic rays, they become heroes Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, the Human Torch and The Thing, respectively.
Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer were the previous writers on the project, and Friedman’s hire signals a potential change in tone. Kaplan and Springer are neophyte scribes known for their comedy scripts. Among the works they have in development are the Rebel Wilson comedy K-Pop: Lost in America and Disaster Wedding, which has Palm Springs filmmaker Max Barbakow attached to direct.
Friedman, on the other hand, is a veteran of the sci-fi genre. He co-wrote War of the Worlds, the Steven Spielberg-Tom Cruise update on the H.G. Wells classic, and then acted as the writer-creator of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the Terminator TV series that served as his first foray into the world of James Cameron. Years later, he would return to work on 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate and was one of the writers Cameron turned to for help in world-building and crafting stories for his multi-movie Avatar franchise.
The scribe is also the show co-creator of Foundation, the ambitious Apple series adapting the Isaac Asimov stories; the second season is due to debut later this year. And he adapted for the small screen Snowpiercer, TNT’s take on the Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi movie, although he left the show over creative differences.
Le créditer de La Guerre des Mondes m'apparaît bien flatteur : il semble qu'il n'a écrit qu'une première version de l'adaptation du livre de Wells, réécrite ensuite en profondeur par David Koepp, un fidèle de la galaxie Spielberg.
Snowpiercer : il s'agit de la série
N'oublions pas le brillant Terminator Dark Fate à la filmo, bien que là aussi il n'y soit peut-être pas pour grand chose. Ouf.
Josh Friedman, au vu de son CV, m'apparaît comme l'archétype du tâcheron hollywoodien aux ordres, alignant les commandes industrielles ciné mais surtout télé les plus diverses.
Il est donc parfait pour Marvel.
Il doit probablement sa promo à Avatar 2, à chacun d'estimer les qualités du scénario lui-même, indépendamment des prouesses techniques et visuelles du film.
Si on ajoute ça à l'indécision entre auteurs "comiques" et lui, il n'est pas inconsidéré de penser qu'une bonne adaptation des 4F n'est pas pour demain.
Après pour Avatar 2 le gros du scénario c'est James Cameron, à tous les coups le Friedman n'a été qu'un genre de script doctor.
Cela étant je trouve pas Terminator Dark Fate si mauvais, y a des choses qui peuvent paraître ridicules mais que le film explique assez bien. Certes on n'est clairement pas au niveau des 2 premiers opus légendaires de la franchise, mais je le préfère de loin à T3 et Genysis.
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'Fantastic Four' Director Gives Casting and Filming Update on MCU Movie [Exclusive]
Director Matt Shakman says the film will be "unlike anything at Marvel you've seen."
• Director Matt Shakman confirmed that his upcoming Fantastic Four film will shoot in London next year, pending the resolution of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. • The casting for the film cannot be announced yet due to the strike, but Shakman expressed excitement in sharing the news once the strike is resolved. • Shakman hinted that the Fantastic Four movie will be different from anything we've seen in the Marvel universe before, both in terms of story and filmmaking approach.
Marvel fans have rightly been concerned about the upcoming slate of Phase 5 and 6 projects in the MCU which have been placed on the back burner as a result of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, but director Matt Shakman revealed to Collider's Editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub during an interview for his upcoming Apple TV+ series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, that his upcoming Fantastic Four film will shoot next year in London, with Marvel aiming for a springtime start on getting Marvel's First Family into the Multiverse Saga currently besieging our favorite superheroes.
A number of exciting names have been linked to the titular quartet for the film—Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Sue Storm and her brother, Johnny Storm—and the parts are some of the most coveted in Hollywood. To date, there has been absolutely no confirmation in any way for the film, and it's been complicated by the strikes, as Shakman revealed. One name linked to the role of Reed Richards has long been John Krasinski, who played a variant of the character in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. However, Krasinski has stated he's unlikely to play the role again, as he told The Wrap back in 2022.
As one would expect with a project of this size and scale, plus the Marvel of it all, concrete information is hard to uncover. On the casting front, Shakman noted that with the SAG strike ongoing, it was impossible to announce anything or put a timescale on it. However, he did add that he was very excited to share the news with fans and that there would be a plan in place to announce the casting as soon as the strike came to a successful conclusion for the actors.
A Legendary Base of Operations
Shakman confirmed that, successful outcome of the SAG-AFTRA strike pending, the movie would be heading to the Legendary Pinewood Studios where film history has been made throughout the decades. "Yes, we are definitely gonna go in front of cameras next year," he said. "Probably the spring. [It will shoot in] London. Pinewood."
Unlike Anything We've Seen
Weintraub asked Shakman about the screenplay for the upcoming feature and, as expected, details were thin on the ground, but his enthusiasm was evident as he teased that it was "certainly unlike anything at Marvel you've seen before."
"It's different in so many ways. I wish I could be specific. I wish I could say more. But we are doing things very differently from a story standpoint, from an approach to the filmmaking standpoint, that really fits the material. I wish I could say more. I would love to, but I can't. But I think it's going to be unlike anything you've seen before, and certainly unlike anything at Marvel that you've seen before."
For more on Fantastic Four, you can watch what Shakman told us in the player or read the full transcript below. Look for more with Shakman next week on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
COLLIDER: I heard you might be working on a movie, so how’s that going?
MATT SHAKMAN: Absolutely having a great time. It's a dream of mine to be able to work on that. I've loved those characters since I was little. It's such an awesome world to be in. The script is awesome, the characters are brilliant. I'm super excited. I'm obviously very happy now that the writers’ strike has resolved in such a good way, and we're able to reunite with Josh Friedman, our amazing screenwriter. I'm really hoping for a fair and equitable resolution to the actors’ strike soon, too. Keeping our fingers crossed. But we’re going! We're a snowball heading downhill. It's awesome. It's got a lot of momentum. It's really fun.
COLLIDER: I heard you might be working on a movie, so how’s that going?
MATT SHAKMAN: Absolutely having a great time. It's a dream of mine to be able to work on that. I've loved those characters since I was little. It's such an awesome world to be in. The script is awesome, the characters are brilliant. I'm super excited. I'm obviously very happy now that the writers’ strike has resolved in such a good way, and we're able to reunite with Josh Friedman, our amazing screenwriter. I'm really hoping for a fair and equitable resolution to the actors’ strike soon, too. Keeping our fingers crossed. But we’re going! We're a snowball heading downhill. It's awesome. It's got a lot of momentum. It's really fun.
I'm not asking you any spoiler-type things, but assuming the SAG strike gets resolved, is the hope to be filming early next year?
SHAKMAN: Yes, we are definitely gonna go in front of cameras next year. Probably the spring.
Are you London or Atlanta?
SHAKMAN: London. Pinewood.
I think Marvel's doing a lot of stuff at that studio.
SHAKMAN: They are. Yeah, it's a great place. And again, talk about a wonderful old studio like Toho, walking around and imagining Bugsy Malone and whipped cream machine guns, you know? I'm excited. I can't wait.
One of the things about Fantastic Four is you have some characters that have unique abilities, and I would imagine you have been, even while the strike’s been on, you've been probably working with VFX companies to try to develop those. How is that gonna look on screen? How has it been looking at VFX for some of these characters and finding the way you want to bring these things to life?
SHAKMAN: We have been nonstop. Despite the strikes, yes, we've been working with the effects and with production design and building our world, and that's been incredibly exciting. You know, how do you translate those skills into live-action in dynamic ways? Because some things that work beautifully in John Byrne and Jack Kirby are a little tougher when you're filming them. How do you make sure that things are exciting but also grounded in a scientific thing, which is also part of the Fantastic Four that I love? There's some stuff I'm super excited about. I can't say too much, you know?
Obviously, people are very excited to know when you're going to announce casting, so when do you think fans are going to find out information?
SHAKMAN: Hard to say. Like I said, we're in the middle of a SAG strike, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they get a great deal really soon and we can go back. Then, once that's resolved, there'll be a plan at that point, but I can't say too much. There will be an announcement at some point! I know that the internet is very excited to find out, and I'm excited to share it. I just can't do it yet.
One of my last things is I love IMAX and the large screen format. What [Christopher] Nolan did with Oppenheimer was amazing in getting people so excited to go see IMAX 70mm. Is that something that have you discussed with Marvel, being like, “Hey, look, can we shoot these sequences in IMAX? Can we use IMAX cameras for the whole thing?” How much is that sort of permeated into your head, watching what Nolan did with Oppenheimer?
SHAKMAN: What Nolan did with Oppenheimer was extraordinary. What Denis Villeneuve has done with Dune is extraordinary. I mean, the format is immersive in the best way. I love seeing things in IMAX, I go whenever I can. And I think that the world of the Fantastic Four would absolutely lend itself to that kind of immersive experience.
[Laughs] So do you think you're gonna have some IMAX in this movie or…?
SHAKMAN: I think, yes. If I were a betting man, I think I would do that. Buy your IMAX stock right now.
I appreciate that. My last thing for you: you mentioned that the script is awesome. What can you tease people, if anything, about how this film might be different than previous Marvel films? What's your take on this, and how will it be different than maybe the other things that have come before?
SHAKMAN: It's different in so many ways. I wish I could be specific. I wish I could say more. But we are doing things very differently from a story standpoint, from an approach to the filmmaking standpoint, that really fits the material. I wish I could say more. I would love to, but I can't. But I think it's going to be unlike anything you've seen before, and certainly unlike anything at Marvel that you've seen before.
Fantastic Four is scheduled to be released on May 2, 2025, as part of Phase Six of the MCU.
Pedro Pascal serait envisagé pour incarner Reed Richards dans Les 4 Fantastiques :
Deadline a écrit:
Pedro Pascal Eyed To Play Reed Richards In Marvel Studios’ ‘Fantastic Four’
After months of speculation over who might play Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic in Marvel Studios‘ Fantastic Four, the wait may be finally over. While a deal is far from done, sources tell Deadline that three-time Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal is in talks to play the leader of the iconic superhero team.
Insiders add that scheduling is still being worked out, but multiple sources close to the negotiations are saying it’s headed in the right direction for Pascal to do this and his other future projects. Pascal has a full dance card that includes Gladiator 2, which is expected to go into production before the end of the year, as well as his popular HBO series The Last Of Us, which is expected to shoot next year.
Marvel had no comment.
As for other members of the team, that can now be worked out as it was essential to figure out who would be playing Richards before they could go out with offers to others. The hope would be to shoot early next year, so expect this cast to fill out quickly with director Matt Shakman currently in pre-production at Pinewood Studios in England. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will produce.
Pascal has been on quite the run in recent years including his Emmy-nominated role in the hit HBO series The Last of Us (he was also nominated for hosting Saturday Night Live, which was one of the more popular episodes of last season).
Dans un entretien avec The Times pour la promotion de Napoléon, Vanessa Kirby a laissé entendre qu'elle serait très intéressée pour interpréter Sue/Jane Storm, et semblait d'ailleurs bien renseignée.
The Times a écrit:
Vanessa Kirby: I was scared filming Napoleon — my knees were shaking
The actress on starring in Ridley Scott’s biopic, how The Crown changed her life and whether she’s taking a lead role in Marvel’s Fantastic Four
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As for the future, it's been reported that Kirby has nudged Margot Robbie out of pole position for the role of Sue Storm in Marvel's highly anticipated Fantastic Four reboot. When I ask her about it she says, "Humm," and pauses for 11 seconds before saying, very carefully: "Sue Storm is the OG. The Fantastic Four were the first ones, from 1961, so there's something amazing about that history, and I would absolutely love it."
Julia Garner, Paul Walter Hauser, John Malkovich et Ralph Ineson rejoignent le casting. Julia Garner incarnera le Surfeur d'Argent et Ralph Ineson sera Galactus. Les rôles des deux autres sont inconnus.
Deadline Hollywood a écrit:
‘The Fantastic Four’: Julia Garner Joins Marvel Studios Movie As A Shalla-Bal Version Of Silver Surfer
EXCLUSIVE: With the four actors set to play the iconic members of the super team, Marvel Studios‘ The Fantastic Four now has its sights set on who will play Silver Surfer, and it looks like they are going with one of the towns biggest rising stars.
Sources tell Deadline that Emmy winner Julia Garner is set to play the iconic comic book character in Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four. Pedro Pascal will play Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby is Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn is Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach is Ben Grimm (aka the Thing).
WandaVision helmer Matt Shakman is directing Fantastic Four off a script by Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, Eric Pearson and Ian Springer. Production will begin this summer, and the film is set to bow on July 25, 2025.
Marvel Studios had no comment.
While plot details for this film are unknown, sources say Garner will play Shalla-Bal, a version of Silver Surfer from the comics.
Garner’s star has been on the rise ever since she won her first of three Emmys for playing Ruth on the Netflix crime drama Ozark. She also landed an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Anna Delvey on the limited series Inventing Anna.
Since the end of Ozark, Garner has built out her film slate starting with the recently released The Royal Hotel. Next up she has the Blumhouse and Universal pic Wolfman, in which she will star opposite Christopher Abbott, and also has the Paramount thriller Apartment 7A.
She is repped by UTA and LBI Entertainment.
Deadline Hollywood a écrit:
Paul Walter Hauser Joins Marvel’s ‘Fantastic Four’
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser is having quite a week. After being tapped for the role of Ed, Frank Drebin’s partner, in the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures, as we were also first to report, we now hear the actor has come aboard Marvel Studios‘ The Fantastic Four.
For now, Hauser’s role in the superhero flick is under wraps, as is its plot. As previously reported, pic’s core cast includes Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm (aka the Thing). Most recently, Julia Garner came aboard to play Shalla-Bal, a version of Silver Surfer.
Matt Shakman (WandaVision) is directing from a script by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer. Peter Cameron (WandaVision) has also done some writing on the project. Production will begin this summer, with the film slated to hit theaters on July 25, 2025.
Boasting quite a stacked dance card at the moment, Hauser stars opposite Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson and Kevin Durand in the Naked Gun film locked and loaded for release on July 18, 2025. Also just recently, he was tapped to star as iconic SNL cast member Chris Farley in an authorized biopic that New Line won in a bidding war. Josh Gad will direct, with Lorne Michaels and Erin David producing.
Soon to be heard voicing Embarrassment in Inside Out 2, Hauser’s other upcoming projects include Tony Tost’s directorial debut Americana with Sydney Sweeney, which premiered at last year’s SXSW and was recently acquired by Lionsgate, and Doug Liman’s Apple Original The Instigators, which has him starring opposite Matt Damon.
The actor is coming off of Emmy, Critics Choice and Golden Globe wins for his turn as serial killer Larry Hall in Apple’s crime drama Black Bird, and was also recently seen in the second season of Apple’s hit comedy The Afterparty. He is represented by CAA, Artists First, and Schreck Rose Dapello.
Deadline Hollywood a écrit:
John Malkovich Joins ‘The Fantastic Four’
EXCLUSIVE: John Malkovich (The New Look) is poised to enter the MCU, as Deadline understands that the actor has come aboard for a role in The Fantastic Four.
As with recent addition Paul Walter Hauser, Malkovich’s role is under wraps for now, along with the plot of the superhero flick. But as previously reported, those set for lead roles in the film include Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic), Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm (aka the Human Torch) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm (aka the Thing). Most recently, Hauser signed on for an undisclosed role, prompting much speculation, with Julia Garner coming aboard to play Shalla-Bal, a version of Silver Surfer.
WandaVision‘s Matt Shakman is directing The Fantastic Four from a script by Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer. Peter Cameron (WandaVision) has also done some writing on the project. Kevin Feige is producing for Marvel Studios, with the film slated to hit theaters on July 25, 2025.
A two-time Oscar nominee, Malkovich was most recently seen starring opposite Ben Mendelsohn, Juliette Binoche, Maisie Williams and more in Apple TV+’s drama series The New Look from Todd A. Kessler, taking on the role of French fashion designer Lucien Lelong. Also recently appearing in the finale of Netflix’s Ripley, the actor was seen prior to that in Showtime’s Billions and Netflix’s Space Force, along with numerous indie features.
Up next, Malkovich will be seen in Julian Schnabel’s Hand of Dante, A24’s horror film Opus opposite Ayo Edebiri, and the biopic The Yellow Tie on famed Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache, among other projects. The actor is represented by WME.
The Hollywood Reporter a écrit:
‘Fantastic Four’ Casts Ralph Ineson as Galactus (Exclusive)
The actor, known for genre work such as 'The Witch' and 'Game of Thrones,' is in talks to play a (very) big bad for Marvel Studios.
The Fantastic Four, meet your villain.
Ralph Ineson, the British actor whose three-decade career ranges from the Harry Potter movies to recent horror prequel The First Omen, has landed the plum part of Galactus, the antagonist in Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four.
The high-profile, big-budget outing, the Fantastic Four’s first under the Marvel Cinematic Universe umbrella, has been casting up in recent weeks ahead of a planned mid-summer shoot in England.
On the call sheet are Perdro Pascal as scientist Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as her hot-heated brother Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richards’ friend with body issues, Ben Grimm/The Thing. Also cast are Julia Garner as a female Silver Surfer and Paul Walter Hauser in an undisclosed role, which some have theorized could be Mole Man or the robot H.E.R.B.I.E. John Malkovich is also signed on.
Ineson is said to be playing Galactus, an intergalactic being who eats the life force of planets. And now he just picked the wrong planet to nosh on.
In the Marvel comics, Galactus, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has appeared as a towering human-like figure. The character made his big screen debut in 2007’s Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, which portrayed him in the form of a CGI-generated cosmic cloud. It was an appearance that did not go well with audiences.
Matt Shakman is directing the new Fantastic Four feature, which has Marvel taking the interesting creative choice of setting the story in the 1960s, the era when the super-team was first created. Eric Pearson, Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan, and Ian Springer wrote the screenplay. Peter Cameron (WandaVision) has also done some writing on the project.
Ineson is currently on screens as a priest in 20th Century’s The First Omen and last year played a key role in Gareth Edwards’ The Creator. He previously had a role in Robert Eggers’ Viking drama The Northman and reteams with the filmmaker, with whom he first worked on acclaimed horror movie The Witch, for vampire thriller Nosferatu, whose A-list cast includes Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Bill Skarsgard and Willem Dafoe. Focus releases Nosferatu in December.. He is currently in production on Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein along with Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz.