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

Through PTI

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

The sports activities romance drama film, which can get started manufacturing later this 12 months, is in response to a 2021 Black Record script through Justin Kuritzkes, reported Time limit.

The tale follows Tashi (Zendaya), a tennis player-turned-coach who has taken her husband, Artwork (Faist), and reworked him from a mediocre participant right into a world-famous Grand Slam champion.

To jolt him out of his fresh shedding streak, she makes him play a ‘Challenger – match with regards to the bottom stage of event at the professional excursion’ the place he unearths himself status around the web from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick (O’Connor): his former easiest good friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.

The undertaking is being produced through Amy Pascal and her Pascal Photos banner in addition to Zendaya and Guadagnino.

Zendaya, who featured in blockbusters “Spider-Guy: No Method House” and “Dune” in 2021, recently stars within the HBO collection “Euphoria”.

O’Connor, the Emmy-winning megastar of Netflix’s royal drama “The Crown”, will subsequent characteristic in “Lee”, reverse Kate Winslet, and “The Historical past of Sound”, co-starring Paul Mescal.

Faist lately broke out along with his position as Riff in Steven Spielberg’s musical “West Aspect Tale”.