Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney sign on for new rom-com from Will Gluck
A new R-rated rom-com from Easy A's Will Gluck has found a home at Sony
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Glen Powell has had some star-making appearances in the last year with the masculinity-oriented Top Gun: Maverick and Devotion, but the actor is looking to get back to his roots with a rom-com from Easy A’s Will Gluck. Powell will star opposite Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney in the untitled, R-rated romantic comedy at Sony.
The plot for the untitled feature is currently under wraps, but is based on a script penned by Ilana Wolpert (High School Musical: The Musical: The Series).
Powell’s been one of the few millennial leading men who’s not shied away from the rom-com and credits his turn in Netflix’s Set It Up with launching his career. Very recently, Powell also teased reuniting with his Set It Up co-star Zoey Deutch for another project.
“One project we were trying to figure out didn’t really kind of come to fruition,” he told Entertainment Tonight, “but Zoey and I are very committed to getting back on screen together.”
The new project from Gluck marks his return to the rom-com as well. He made one of the best of the 2010s with the Emma Stone-led Easy A and is known for directing the better of the two situationship films of 2011—Friends With Benefits starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. However, the last few years of his career has been defined by children’s media such as Annie and Peter Rabbit.
Sweeney’s been very busy over the last few years, since her Emmy-nominated turns on HBO’s Euphoria and The White Lotus. In addition to playing the new Barbarella, Sweeney will soon appear in Marvel’s Madame Web. However, Gluck’s new picture will mark her first time in a rom-com lead role. The rom-com’s truly back, baby.
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Easy A is one of the movies I might put on whenever I feel sad. Main plot and actors aside, Patricia Clarkson and Stanley Tucci are absolutely hysterical.Also, Friends with Benefits is absolutely not better than No Strings Attached, unless you are impervious to the charms of Natalie Portman shoving her face full of doughnut holes while screaming “keep bleedin”.
Oh whoa, Canadian over here. I never considered what an American would call a Tim-bit. Interesting.
I think I might just be impervious to that.
I don’t know that Glen Powell could get me to watch a rom-com, but the fact that he’s in something does get my attention now. That’s just how well he played his character in Maverick.
Madame Web is a Sony Pictures deal, not a Marvel one. Also it’s being produced by Lorenzo Di Bonaventura so I fully expect it to be a huge piece of shit.
Powell was great in Set It Up (which was surprisingly very good). I’m excited to see how his career will unfold, and if he will keep doing movies where he plays a military pilot.
Does Powell’s expression ever change?