Glen Powell continues to be one in all Hollywood’s most in-demand main males of the second.
The actor is in early talks to star within the subsequent movie from director J.J. Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. No deal is but in place, and plot particulars are at the moment underneath wraps, though the mission doesn’t contain time-travel, placing to relaxation current rumors about Abrams’ potential plans.
A consultant for Abrams’ manufacturing firm, Unhealthy Robotic, declined to remark.
Powell and Abrams are each producers on Paul Crowder’s documentary movie The Blue Angels, which hits IMAX on Could 17 earlier than streaming on Prime Video per week later. The mission follows a 12 months with the Navy’s extremely regarded Flight Demonstration Squadron.
Earlier on Wednesday, THR reported that Powell is about to star reverse Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern in writer-director John Lee Hancock’s authorized drama Monsanto. Rocket Science is about to launch worldwide gross sales out of the Cannes Movie Market later this month, with CAA Media Finance dealing with home rights.
Powell has been significantly in-demand since starring reverse Sydney Sweeney in Sony’s romantic comedy Anybody however You. Powell co-wrote and stars in Richard Linklater’s Netflix comedy Hit Man, which begins streaming subsequent month after premiering ultimately 12 months’s Venice Movie Competition.
The actor additionally stars alongside Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos in Lee Isaac Chung’s motion sequel Twisters, which Common releases in theaters July 19. Moreover, Powell can be capturing the revenge drama Huntington in South Africa this spring, and he’s connected to Edgar Wright’s new adaptation of The Operating Man for Paramount.
Abrams, who stays busy as a producer, hasn’t directed a movie since 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. He has beforehand helmed such motion pictures as Mission: Unattainable III, Tremendous 8, and Star Trek and its sequel.
Powell is repped by CAA, The Initiative Group and Johnson Shapiro.
The InSneider was first to report that Powell is in talks for Abrams’ movie.