There is now another high-profile casting addition for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s (“The Revenant”) mysterious and untitled next film that stars Tom Cruise (“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”) as British actor Emma D’Arcy has joined the Warner Bros. project as reported this morning by Deadline and confirmed by the actor.
“I’m delighted to be working with such extraordinary and exacting artists as Alejandro and Tom,” D’Arcy told Deadline, confirming their participation. “They are the masters of their craft, and witnessing them in combination has been a privilege.”
Of course, D’Arcy has been notably leading HBO‘s widely popular “Game of Thrones” spinoff series “House of The Dragon” as Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen with season three on the horizon, and they haven’t done feature film work since director Eva Husson’s 2021 effort “Mothering Sunday.”
Who exactly Emma D’Arcy is playing in the stacked project isn’t clear at the moment.
Iñárritu reunites with his “Birdman” co-writers Alexander Dinelaris and Nicolas Giacobone, with Sabina Bierman also contributing to the screenplay. Deadline adds the brief logline for the film, which focuses on “the most powerful man in the world [who] embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything.”
The project has a lot of awards hype behind it for good reason, as Iñárritu previously won Oscars for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Original Screenplay for his fantastic drama “Birdman” and then scooped up a second Best Director statue for the Leonardo DiCaprio-led wilderness revenge thriller “The Revenant.”
D’Arcy joins quite the impressive lineup of acting talent already assembled with Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of A Fall,” “The Zone of Interest”), John Goodman (“The Righteous Gemstones”), Jesse Plemons (“The Power of the Dog”), Sophie Wilde (“Babygirl”), Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), and Michael Stuhlbarg (“The Shape of Water”) taking roles as well.
Cameras are currently rolling on the untitled movie at Pinewood Studios U.K., and it has been set for release on October 2, 2026, by WB as another director-driven project that should be in awards season contention.
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