English singer/songwriter famous person Charli XCX turned a popular culture zeitgeist second unto herself due to all issues Brat Summer season. She took over the charts, gained a number of Grammys, joined the checklist of present and upcoming Saturday Evening Stay hosts for its historic Season 50, and jump-started a full-fledged film profession with tasks like Gregg Araki’s I Need Your Intercourse and the Faces of Demise remake. Now, she’s teaming up with considered one of cinema’s most excessive filmmakers for an upcoming A24 film, and I couldn’t be extra enthused.
In what might very nicely be essentially the most bonkers live-action challenge of her profession, Charli XCX is about to each star in and produce the most recent massive display providing from Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, in keeping with Selection. The workaholic style director is arguably greatest recognized for 1999’s slow-burn nightmare Audition (considered one of our picks for Greatest Horror Films Ever) and the notorious 2001 yakuza horror movie Ichi the Killer, so the truth that he’s working with the UK star is sufficient to ship one’s creativeness into overload.
Titled The Second, the movie would be the second challenge that Charlie XCX will produce by way of her burgeoning firm Studio365, with a script written by up-and-coming scribe Ross Evans. The challenge was first introduced in January with Glaswegian director & photographer Aidan Zamiri, who directed Charli’s “360” music video, connected to each co-write with Bertie Brandes and helm it as his first function. It’s not clear why the inventive workforce modified between then and now, however I’m not mad at it.
I feel it’s protected to say Miike’s completed product shall be in a totally totally different universe from no matter Zamiri would have crafted. Sadly, we don’t but know what The Second will truly be about, although it was initially described as being based mostly on an authentic concept from Charli herself.
Why I am Pumped For Takashi Miike To Be part of Charli XCX’s A24 Film
Takashi Miike’s profession is sort of unparalleled in scope, as he’s directed nicely above 120 movies, TV episodes, and anthology installments since 1991. The man has averaged round 3.5 tasks a yr, with a number of years going above that mark. Which isn’t to say that each single challenge is a top-quality masterpiece, however there are completely some unmissable gems within the combine, a few of which I am going to checklist beneath.
By and enormous, Miike works inside a handful of genres, delivering a few of the best Japanese horror films of all time, however isn’t any stranger to high-octane motion, tight-knit thrillers and sweeping epics. He has a litany of signature strikes in his toolbox, and might go from hyper-violent yakuza shootouts to darkly hilarious serial killers to hyper-surreal and taboo dream sequences with, typically inside the identical sequence. So I am unable to think about he’d conform to deal with The Second with out there being a number of visceral parts to dig into.
A Choice Of My Favourite Takashi Miike Films, The Early Years
- Shinjuku Triad Society (1995)
- Fudoh: The New Technology (1996)
- Wet Canine (1997)
- The Chook Folks in China (1998)
- Audition (1999)
- MPD Psycho (2000)
- Customer Q (2001)
- Ichi the Killer (2001)
- The Happiness of the Katakuris (2002)
- Gozu (2003)
- The Negotiator (2003)
- Three…Extremes [Segment: Box] (2004)
That basically is simply scratching the floor on a protracted an profitable profession, however that group definitely serves as an plain tasting menu of what he is able to. It is like he was creating A24 films means earlier than the studio existed, so I can solely hope that The Second results in additional collaborations.
Charli XCX’s Upcoming Film Slate
For somebody who has been touring and selling a blockbuster album the best way Charli has, one may not suppose she’d have time to commit to showing in a large assortment of recent films, however you higher consider that is the case. This is a shortlist of her upcoming 2025 films and past:
- Faces of Demise (Horror) – additionally starring Dacre Montgomery, Barbie Ferreira, Josie Totah and Jermaine Fowler
- Sacrifice (Motion Comedy) – additionally starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure, Chris Evans, Salma Hayek, Sam Richardson, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich
- I Need Your Intercourse (Thriller) – additionally starring Chase Sui Wonders, Olivia Wilde, Mason Gooding, Johnny Knoxville, Daveed Diggs
- 100 Nights of Hero (Fantasy Romance) – additionally starring Emma Corrin, Varada Sethu, Felicity Jones, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Galitzine
- The Gallerist (Comedy Thriller) – additionally starring Jenna Ortega, Natalie Portman, Sterling Ok. Brown, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Brühl, Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph
Keep tuned for extra information about The Second and most of the star-studded tasks above as Hollywood goes Brat-tastic.