Euphoria star Jacob Elordi is reportedly being thought of to star in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming sequence adaptation of The Shards. The sequence is predicated on Bret Easton Ellis‘ fictionalized memoir of his closing 12 months of highschool.
In response to World of Reel, Elordi met with Guadagnino whereas they had been lately in Venice for the movie pageant, the place that they had a dialog a couple of potential position within the HBO undertaking.
Ought to the Australian actor signal onto the undertaking, this is able to mark his newest undertaking with HBO following the acclaimed Zendaya-led teen drama, which continues to be slated to return for a 3rd season. Elordi will subsequent be seen in Emerald Fennell’s psychological thriller Saltburn with Barry Keoghan, in addition to Sofia Coppola’s biopic drama Priscilla.
What to anticipate in The Shards?
The Shards will likely be directed by the Name Me by Your Identify filmmaker after collaborating with HBO for his restricted sequence We Are Who We Are. The variation will likely be written and govt produced by Ellis together with Nick Corridor and Brian Younger. Set in 1981, the story facilities round a bunch of rich highschool buddies who goes to an elite prep faculty. Every part adjustments with the arrival of a brand new pupil with a mysterious previous.
The novel’s synopsis reads: “Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior on the unique Buckley prep faculty when a brand new pupil arrives with a mysterious previous. Robert Mallory is vivid, good-looking, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his buddies at the same time as he turns into part of their tightly knit circle. Bret’s obsession with Mallory is equaled solely by his more and more unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the unfastened who appears to be drawing ever nearer to Bret and his buddies, taunting them—and Bret particularly—with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply native acts of violence.”
