Keanu Reeves (John Wick) is now confirmed for Ruben Östlund’s anticipated upcoming movie The Leisure System Is Down and we are able to reveal that he’ll be joined within the solid by Kirsten Dunst (Civil Conflict) and Daniel Brühl (Rush).
We are able to additionally reveal some intriguing plot and manufacturing factors concerning the social satire.
We’re instructed that two-time Palme d’Or winner Östlund has purchased a retired Boeing 747 for the mission, with the airplane set for use full scale for the shoot in a studio.
Set on a long-haul flight the place the leisure system fails, the movie will see passengers pressured to face the horror of being bored. We hear {that a} bunch extra well-known solid might be becoming a member of the mission, which is scheduled to shoot in early 2025.
In getting ready the film, the Swedish filmmaker was impressed by a social psychological examine at Virginia College referred to as ‘The Problem Of The Disengaged Thoughts.’ The experiment discovered that contributors didn’t take pleasure in spending 6 to fifteen minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do however suppose. To take the experiment one step additional, the researchers added a twist: With the contact of a button, the take a look at topics might, if desired, give themselves a innocent however very painful electrical shock. It turned out {that a} quarter of all ladies and two-thirds of all males selected to press the button. One man even discovered being alone together with his ideas so insufferable that, in the course of the quarter-hour, he gave himself 190 electrical shocks.
The mission might be Östlund’s second English-language movie and seventh function after The Guitar Mongoloid (2004), Involuntary (2008), Play (2011), Pressure Majeure (2014), The Sq. (2017) and Triangle of Unhappiness (2022). The final two of those received the director the Palme d’Or in Cannes, that means he’s one in every of solely a handful of filmmakers to have received the accolade twice.
The movie might be a Swedish-German-French co-production, and can reunite the director together with his longtime colleagues, producer Erik Hemmendorff of Plattform Produktion and producer Philippe Bober from Paris-based Coproduction Workplace, which can be dealing with world gross sales.
Curiosity is understandably excessive and pre-sales are anticipated to shut at this week’s Cannes market, the mission’s first. Reeves was first reported to be in talks final month by Selection.