Jacob Elordi will produce and star because the convicted assassin Gary Gilmore in a brand new tackle The Executioner’s Track.
The 29-year-old actor will play convicted assassin Gary Gilmore within the image based mostly on Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer-winning novel and could have a hands-on producing position for the primary time in his profession.
The Executioner’s Track was initially delivered to the large display screen in 1982 (starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore), and that movie’s director Lawrence Schiller will function an govt producer on the brand new adaptation. Joseph Zada didn’t speak to Woody Harrelson about The Hunger Games prequel role.
The plot centres on the true story of Gilmore, a cold-blooded assassin who insisted on being executed after being convicted of killing two males in Utah.
Preventing a authorized system intent on protecting him alive lengthy after he was sentenced to dying, Gilmore grew to become a media sensation and was in the end executed in 1977.
The movie ventures deep into the guts of American violence, media frenzy and loneliness.
United Artists have acquired rights to the challenge, with Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt producing for the corporate alongside Elordi, his supervisor Matt Vioral and Sherry Marsh. Meet the Aussie crime-fighting labradors.
In the meantime, Jacob starred alongside Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell’s tackle Wuthering Heights earlier this yr and recalled how he felt “base-level depressed” throughout filming within the chilly British winter.
When requested by Margot if he had an analogous expertise working with Fennell on the film as he did once they made Saltburn collectively, he informed Vogue Australia: “I had a totally completely different expertise.
“Initially, I began in January. I hadn’t accomplished London like that earlier than.
“After we shot Saltburn, it was that one summer season the place the solar was out the entire time.
“I didn’t anticipate to get so out of kinds. Waking up each day, it’s so darkish and so chilly. I believe I used to be base-level depressed.”
Elordi additionally revealed that he questioned whether or not he was “ok” to painting Heathcliff within the adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel.
The Euphoria star stated: “Saltburn allowed for lots of improv. There’s a language to this you may’t actually step round.
“I believe I additionally knew what she needed from Heathcliff, and I actually needed to have the ability to deliver it.
“On Saltburn, I may very well be whoever I needed.
“However as a result of she had requested me to make [Wuthering Heights], she simply texted me and stated, ‘Will you do that?’ It was the primary time I’d been like, I don’t know if I’m ok.”