Orlando Bloom Joins Acclaimed Oscar-Nominated Director’s New Movie (With an Nearly-NSFW Title)

The Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom has been forged in a brand new film that options sisters Kate and Rooney Mara teaming up of their first movie. Per Deadline, Bloom in addition to actor Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina) have joined the forged of the brand new drama Bucking Fastard from Oscar-nominated director Werner Herzog.

Bucking Fastards wrapped filming in Europe over the weekend. Actual-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara will play Jean and Joan Holbrooke, who’re described as “two sisters who’re so shut to one another that they communicate in unison, love the identical man, and have the identical desires. They even make the identical slip of the tongue in unison. In the hunt for an imaginary land, the Orkneys – the place real love is feasible – they begin digging a tunnel by means of a whole mountain vary.”

Bloom will play the sisters’ rowdy ex-lover, Gareth Mulroney. Gleeson will painting Timothy, the sisters’ government-issued social employee/mender who tries to assist carry them again to fashionable life after they change into staples within the tabloids.

Repping the undertaking for worldwide gross sales is HanWay Movies, and the corporate will probably be sharing the primary footage of the film from Dublin, Sligo (Eire), and Slovenia with consumers at Cannes. The movie is backed by a non-public fairness agency and produced by Clara Wu Tsai, Ariel Leon Isacovitch, and Agnes Chu, together with Kieran Corrigan, Emanuele Moretti, and Andrea Bucko.

Herzog, along with directing Bucking Fastard, additionally wrote the film. He launched an announcement about his latest undertaking saying, “Bucking Fastard is a movie that, for me, completes a circle in an operatic triptych with my earlier movies, Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Grizzly Man (2005). We can’t see the world as Jean and Joan Holbrooke see it, however we do see how the world reacts to them – by means of the courts and the press, by means of people who wish to assist and people who wish to use them, by means of the eyes of beasts each tame and wild, and even by means of their very own echoes within the core of the earth,” Herzog mentioned.

HanWay Movies’ CEO Gabrielle Stewart added, “Werner has surpassed himself in crafting one thing really unique with shocking notes of humor and fantasy. We’re excited to be unveiling unique footage of Bucking Fastard to consumers in Cannes.”

Bloom and the Mara Sisters’ Initiatives

Orlando Bloom, along with his function as Legolas within the Lord of the Rings franchise, is legendary for his portrayal of Will Turner within the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Extra lately, Bloom starred within the movies Gran Turismo (2023) and Pink Proper Hand (2024).

Kate Mara performed Sue Storm in 2015’s Unbelievable 4 alongside Michael B. Jordan’s (Sinners), Johnny Storm. She additionally appeared in The Martian (2015) and was nominated for an Emmy in 2014 for her portrayal of Zoe Barnes in Home of Playing cards. She is presently starring in The Astronaut alongside Laurence Fishburne. Rooney Mara acquired Oscar nominations in each 2012 and 2016 for the movies The Woman with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) and Carol (2015), respectively.

No launch date for Bucking Fastard has been introduced, however footage will probably be launched on the upcoming Cannes movie pageant in Could.

Supply: Deadline