Orlando Bloom joins Pete Davidson in A24 stoner movie Wizards!
Naomi Scott, Franz Rogowski and Sean Harris also star in David Michôd's latest film
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Pete Davidson playing a pothead in an A24 film is so expected that it’s hardly worth a headline, but add Orlando Bloom into the mix? Our interest has been piqued.
The two will share the screen in Wizards!, a new film from Australian writer-director David Michôd (The King), per Deadline. Michôd will serve both roles for this latest flick, having collaborated on the story with Joel Edgerton. Naomi Scott, Franz Rogowski and Sean Harris are also set to star in the film.
Wizards! “follows two hapless pothead beach-bar operators (Davidson and Rogowski) who run into trouble when they stumble across stolen loot that they really should have just left alone,” according to a synopsis from Deadline.
The film is the latest in a string of collaborations between A24 and Plan B (including Moonlight, Minari, and The Last Black Man In San Francisco). Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B will produce alongside Liz Watts of See-Saw Films.
Pete Davidson has recently left Saturday Night Live, where he rose to fame by playing himself. Outside of SNL, he’s also mostly played versions of himself (ready: goofy stoner dudes), and is literally signed on to play himself in his new Peacock comedy, Bupkis.
That said, he’s worked with an interesting roster of directors, including, most recently, Halina Reijn for A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies. Based on what little we know of his Wizards! character, it seems firmly within his limited scope–but did you ever expect him to be directed by the guy who made The King? Probably not!
Bloom, meanwhile, has appeared everywhere from the Shire to the Caribbean to The Lonely Island. Most recently, he starred in Prime Video’s Victorian mystery/fantasy Carnival Row alongside Cara Delevingne. We’ll be interested to see what this team up with Davidson will entail.
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‘Battle of the Network Brosephs”?
I gotta say, I was kind of hoping there would be a live action remake of Ralph Bakshi’s 1977 Wizards film, which definitely has a stoner mindset and features — timely! — villains using Nazi propaganda and imagery as a shock tactic.
I don’t think it’d be hard for someone with A24 credentials to beef up the story and make something really impressive out of it.
This is the only correct take. But most people around here seem to have been born after 1990 and have no idea what you are talking about. Their loss.
Twenty bucks says Bakshi still manages to find a way to accuse them of ripping him off.
Animated PG-rated Films Today: “This cartoon about a cartoon werepanda talks about puberty and features shots of feminine hygiene products. It’s filth! Society is going to fall apart!”
Animated PG-rated Films in the 70’s: “This fairy is built like a brick shithouse.”
That was a great film – I forced my 10yo stepdaughter to watch it. She was not unhappy!
How much full frontal naked paddle boarding is Bloom going to do?
What’s the consensus, who’s the better match for twins? Timothy Olyphant and Josh Duhamel, Luke Evans and Orlando Bloom, or Chris Pratt and Patrick Wilson?Me, I’m going Pratt and Wilson. I’d never seen Parks and Rec and kept thinking Patrick Wilson was cast for GotG.
Richard Herd and Karl Malden
Come on, man, that’s cheating. You can’t throw two 90+yos in there cause, like, they all look like skeletons covered in wax.My 80yo father looks like Prince Phillip who looks like Clint Eastwood. Pale ass, paper thin skinned honkeys.
Got some competition from Arnie and Danny De Vito.But I’d add Tom Hardy and Logan Marshall-Green.
Good one.
Has a Carnival Row Season 2 been shot, or was it one-and-done?
I believe they are planning for a season 2, but it was interrupted by Covid. Uncertain now where it stands, although last I read it had not been officially canceled.