In a teeming sea of sequels and series and reboots and remakes, here is something entirely different. The upcoming film from director Romain Gavras is, according to Deadline, about the following: “a high end charity gala is raided by a violent group of radicals on a mystical quest to fulfill a prophecy.”
The first half of that sentence was interesting enough, but you throw in “a mystical quest to fulfill a prophecy” and suddenly it’s a whole new ballgame. Deadline notes, “The son of the great filmmaker Costa Gavras (Z and Missing), Gavras has woven into the plot the Greek mythology tales he grew up exposed to by his dad and mom, the French film producer and journalist Michele Ray-Gavras.”
The cast for this film already includes Chris Evans (Knives Out), Brendan Fraser (Doom Patrol), Anya Taylor-Joy (Furiosa, pictured above), and Salma Hayek Pinault (Black Mirror), and with more actors yet to be announced. This will be Gavras’s first English language film, and he co-wrote it with Will Arbery, a writer and producer on Succession. I don’t think we have to worry about it pulling its punches.
Anya Taylor-Joy will star as one of the violent radicals; Chris Evans apparently plays “the movie star she has tapped to die.” This gets even more meta if you want it to, by which I mean it is not the first time Evans, a movie star, has played a movie star facing death and/or deadly combat. (I’m talking about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, obviously.)
Filming on Sacrifice is set to begin this fall. The premiere, whenever it happens, cannot come soon enough.
