Added new screen captures of Jacob Elordi in “Wuthering Heights” (2026).
Check out the official “Euphoria” Season 3 trailer. April 12 in HBO Max.
Added HQ screen captures of Jacob Elordi in “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” (2024).
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Added new screen captures of Jacob Elordi in “Frankestein” (2025). Check them out!
The specter of death was all around Paul Schrader as he wrote and filmed “Oh Canada,” starring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi. The new film, being sold by Arclight Films at the European Film Market, centers around the last days of documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife and is based on the Russell Banks’ novel “Foregone.” Schrader was a longtime pal of Banks since Schrader directed the adaptation of Banks’ acclaimed “Affliction” in 1989. Banks died in January 2023 as Schrader was working on the “Canada” screenplay. “We corresponded up to almost the end,” says Schrader. “My health was bad too.” He contracted COVID-19 and endured subsequent respiratory issues that led to hospitalization.
“We were all dealing with mortality issues as Leonard does in the film. You get to the point where you wonder how many bullets you have left in the gun,” the veteran filmmaker says.
Schrader and Banks’ Fife is an enigmatic American who fled to Canada during the Vietnam War. He built a career working in nonfiction film while his entire life was built around a creation myth that is largely bullshit. “Fife is dying and realizing that his whole life has been built on lies and he is trying to confront himself before he dies,” Schrader says.
Schrader recently completed a trilogy of films focused on men battling themselves that have featured a series of understated yet explosive performances by actors of a certain age. (Ethan Hawke in 2017’s “First Reformed,” Oscar Isaac in 2021’s “The Card Counter” and Joel Edgerton in 2022 “Master Gardener”). In all three films, Schrader strips down their performances, excising any movie star tics to create middle-aged men on the verge of either a nervous breakdown or a breakthrough.
While Schrader insists “Oh Canada” is not part four in a series —“Everybody likes a trilogy, but after that people tune out,” he jokes — but he did need an old hand who could turn in a quiet but intense performance. He nabbed longtime friend Richard Gere to play Fife, the two reuniting after more than 40 years since Gere’s career-making Schrader collaboration on “American Gigolo.” As he has done before, Schrader stripped Gere’s performance down to the studs, resulting in Gere’s most powerful performance in recent memory.
Schrader is both an auteur but also realistic about filmmaking in the modern world. “You make a film like this you need great performances, but you also need some top-spin to grab interest,” says Schrader. “Richard and I working together gives the film top-spin.”
“Oh Canada” reveals itself in a series of flashbacks to Fife’s twenties. Schrader knew that to make the film believable, he needed an actor with an equally quiet but charismatic persona. “The historic model was ‘Gigolo’ and finding someone with that kind of electricity,” says Schrader. He found him in Australian Elordi.
“I can’t say we planned it exactly, but Jacob plays the younger Fife with great skill and he also happened to explode while we were making the film,” says Schrader. It’s true, during and immediately after the fall of 2023 filming of “Oh Canada,” Elordi popped as Elvis in “Priscilla” and his star turn in “Saltburn” became a hit. A few weeks after Schrader finished shooting, he looked up and there was Elordi hosting “Saturday Night Live.”
“We could not have got a better actor to play the younger Richard,” says Schrader.
While “Oh Canada” might not have a happy ending, Schrader’s own trajectory does at the moment. His health has improved markedly since last winter when he was finishing up the screenplay. “I’ve now made my film about confronting death,” Schrader told me. “I’m now ready to move on to other things.”
Jacob Elordi is alive! The actor will portray Frankenstein‘s monster in director Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming adaptation of the classic tale.
He is taking over the role from Andrew Garfield. The “Spider-Man” and “Tick, Tick… Boom” star departed the Netflix project due to strike-related scheduling conflicts, according to Deadline, which first reported the news of Elordi’s replacement casting.
Elordi joins the previously announced ensemble of Oscar Isaac, who is playing Victor Frankenstein, as well as Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz. Felix Kammerer (“All Quiet on the Western Front”), Lars Mikkelsen (“The Witcher”), David Bradley (“Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”) and Christian Convery (“Sweet Tooth”) were also added to the call sheet.
Del Toro, the Oscar-winning filmmaker of “The Shape of Water,” is writing, directing and producing “Frankenstein.” It’s based on Mary Shelley’s novel about the brilliant but egotistical scientist Victor Frankenstein, who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment. The text has been adapted for the screen many times, most notably in 1931’s “Frankenstein,” directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff.
Elordi, the 26-year-old actor who rose to fame in HBO’s “Euphoria,” has experience with portraying well-known figures — real or fictional. He recently played Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s drama “Priscilla.” Elordi also starred alongside Barry Keoghan in the fall’s dark comedy “Saltburn,” directed by Emerald Fennell. He is repped by Gersh.
“Frankenstein” continues Netflix’s partnership with del Toro, including the Academy Award-winning “Pinocchio,” the anthology series “Cabinet of Curiosities,” and the animated films “Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans” and “Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia.”
Added new screen captures of Jacob Elordi in “Priscilla” (2023). Check them out!
Vertical Entertainment will release the Jacob Elordi/Zachary Quinto thriller HE WENT THAT WAY on streaming next month, arriving on digital platforms on January 12th, 2024. The film will launch in US theaters in limited release on January 5th.
He Went That Way is directed by Jeffrey Darling in his directorial debut and is based on the non-fiction book Luke Karamazov by Conrad Hilberry. The film follows Jim Goodwin, an animal trainer accompanied by his pet chimpanzee, who picks up a hitchhiker later revealed to be a serial killer. It is inspired by real life events involving serial killer Larry Lee Ranes.
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Added new screen captures of Jacob Elordi in “Saltburn” (2023). Check them out!
Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series returns featuring the biggest stars in this year’s Oscar race for Season 19. The four episodes will debut on PBS SoCal on Jan. 11 at 8 to 10 p.m., followed by encores on KCET and public television stations across the country and the WORLD Channel (check local listings). All episodes will stream on pbssocal.org and the free PBS App following their premieres.
Variety’s “Actors on Actors” issue will hit newsstands on Dec. 6, and the conversations will start airing on Monday, Dec. 4, on Variety.com and its social media channels.
This year’s “Actors on Actors” lineup includes:
Margot Robbie (“Barbie”) & Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”)
Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) & Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”)
Emily Blunt (“Oppenheimer”) & Anne Hathaway (“Eileen”)
Halle Bailey (“The Little Mermaid”, “The Color Purple”) & Rachel Zegler (“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”)
Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) & Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”)
Colman Domingo (“Rustin,” “The Color Purple”) & Jacob Elordi (“Priscilla,” “Saltburn”)
Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) & Michael Fassbender (“The Killer”)
Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) & Taraji P. Henson (“The Color Purple”)
Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) & Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers”)
Annette Bening (“Nyad”) & Julianne Moore (“May December”)
Natalie Portman (“May December”) & Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”)
Alden Ehrenreich (“Fair Play,” “Oppenheimer”) & Da’Vine Joy Randolph (“The Holdovers”)
“I’m so excited that ‘Actors on Actors’ – the most prestigious franchise of awards season – will be returning with one of our biggest lineups yet,” said Variety Co-Editor-In-Chief Ramin Setoodeh. “These conversations will truly be the talk of the internet as we roll them out over 12 days, starting on Dec. 4 and on PBS SoCal in January.”
“Variety Studio: Actors on Actors” won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2019 and is nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award this year. The series is produced by PBS SoCal in partnership with Variety Media, LLC.
