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  • Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist to headline Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has roped in actors Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist to lead his next directorial venture “Challengers”.

    The sports romance drama movie, which will start production later this year, is based on a 2021 Black List script by Justin Kuritzkes, reported Deadline.

    The story follows Tashi (Zendaya), a tennis player-turned-coach who has taken her husband, Art (Faist), and transformed him from a mediocre player into a world-famous Grand Slam champion.

    To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a ‘Challenger – event close to the lowest level of tournament on the pro tour’ where he finds himself standing across the net from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick (O’Connor): his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.

    The project is being produced by Amy Pascal and her Pascal Pictures banner as well as Zendaya and Guadagnino.

    Zendaya, who featured in blockbusters “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Dune” in 2021, currently stars in the HBO series “Euphoria”.

    O’Connor, the Emmy-winning star of Netflix’s royal drama “The Crown”, will next feature in “Lee”, opposite Kate Winslet, and “The History of Sound”, co-starring Paul Mescal.

    Faist recently broke out with his role as Riff in Steven Spielberg’s musical “West Side Story”.

  • Jude Law, Marion Cotillard and more join Kate Winslet in ‘Lee’

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Actors Jude Law, Marion Cottilard, Andrea Riseborough and Josh O’Connor will feature alongside Oscar winner Kate Winslet in the upcoming biographical drama movie “Lee”.

    The film is based on the life of Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model turned World War II correspondent.

    Winslet will play Miller who had traded a glamorous career as a Vogue cover model and muse to artists like Man Ray for a dangerous career as a WWII photographer.

    She chronicled the fighting on the allied front lines and exposed the atrocities that Hitler’s Nazi Germany perpetrated on Jews in concentration camps.

    Law has been cast as Roland Penrose, an artist and poet who would eventually fall in love with Miller; and O’Connor as Miller’s son, Anthony Penrose, as per Deadline.

    Riseborough will star as Audrey Withers, the editor of British Vogue as a close friend of Miller, while Cotillard will play Solange D’Ayen, the fashion director of French Vogue.

    Liz Hannah has penned the screenplay, adapting it from the book “The Lives of Lee Miller” by Anthony Penrose.

    Winslet is also producing the film along with Troy Lum and Andrew Mason of Hopscotch Features, as well as Rocket Science and Finola Dwyer.

    The film is expected to start production early next year.