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 steer his subsequent directorial enterprise “Challengers”.

The sports activities romance drama film, which is able to begin manufacturing later this 12 months, is predicated 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 remodeled him from a mediocre participant right into a world-famous Grand Slam champion.

To jolt him out of his current dropping streak, she makes him play a ‘Challenger – occasion near the bottom stage of event on the professional tour’ the place he finds himself standing throughout the online from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick (O’Connor): his former finest good friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.

The challenge is being produced by Amy Pascal and her Pascal Pictures banner in addition to Zendaya and Guadagnino.

Zendaya, who featured in blockbusters “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Dune” in 2021, at the moment stars within the HBO collection “Euphoria”.

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

Faist not too long ago broke out along with his function as Riff in Steven Spielberg’s musical “West Side Story”.