{blackbabes} Zendaya Set For Alex Garland Sci-Fi Film At A24

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As Zendaya continues to play out a killer 2026, she’s inked to star in an untitled new A24 sci-fi film written and directed by Alex Garland.

This follows the A-lister’s collaboration with the studio on Euphoria, the recently wrapped hit HBO series for which she won multiple Emmys, a Golden Globe and other top accolades, and Kristoffer Borgli’s darkly comedic rom-com The Drama. She and Robert Pattinson took the latter title to a worldwide gross of over $134 million. Previously, she’s been attached to play singer Ronnie Spector in Be My Baby, an A24 film from Barry Jenkins that we first reported.

Plot details for Garland’s latest are being kept under wraps. Shooting next year, it’ll continue a long-standing relationship between filmmaker and studio. A24 has worked with Garland since his Oscar-nominated breakout Ex Machina; other titles they’ve teamed for include Warfare, Civil War, Men and his upcoming big-budget adaptation of the video game Elden Ring.

So far this year, Zendaya has been seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, an Oscar frontrunner that has exceeded $1.7 billion in worldwide box office, and reprised as MJ in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which has done over $2.5B worldwide. Next up, she’ll be seen reprising as Chani in Dune: Part Three, the conclusion of a lauded sci-fi trilogy from Denis Villeneuve, out December 18. She is repped by CAA, Monster Talent Management and Granderson Des Rochers.

Starring Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw and more, Garland’s live-action take on Elden Ring is dated for March 3, 2028. Outside of his work at A24, he recently wrote and produced both 28 Years Later and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple for Sony Pictures. He is repped by WME and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.

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{blackbabes} Nia Long Joins Teyana Taylor’s Directorial Debut ‘Get Lite’ at Paramount

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After starring in the blockbuster biopic “Michael,” Nia Long has joined the cast of Teyana Taylor‘s directorial debut “Get Lite.”

The Paramount movie stars Emmy winner Storm Reid and NFL rookie-turned-actor Ceyair Wright. Wright (“Space Jam: A New Legacy”) plays a talented, but sheltered, dance student who finds inspiration, love and family in the last place he expected: the subways of New York City. Reid (“The Last of Us,” “Euphoria”) is the girl who opens his life to new possibilities.

The role reunites Long and Reid after they co-starred in the hit 2023 thriller “Missing”; Long has also appeared in multiple projects for producer Kenya Barris, including his 2023 Netflix comedy “You People” and his 2020 series “#BlackAF.” She joins an acclaimed ensemble cast that features Leslie Odom, Jr., Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jodie Turner-Smith, Asante Blackk, Woody McClain, Tylil James and Khayr Bullock.

Production on “Get Lite” is underway in New York City, with Taylor directing from a screenplay by Maurice Williams, based on a spec script by Eric Gross that appeared on the Black List in 2020. Paramount has slated the film for a wide theatrical release on Aug. 20, 2027.

In addition to starring in the film, Reid will produce alongside Barris and Anni Weisband for Khalabo Ink Society; Robyn Simpson for A Seed & Wings Productions, Reid’s banner; and Bill Karesh for Offbrnd. Taylor is also producing the film with Courtney “Coco” Gilbert, under their production banner, The Aunties.

Last month, Long, a four-time NAACP Image Award winner, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, literally cementing her status as a film and TV icon. She most recently starred in “Michael,” the blockbuster biopic about late pop star Michael Jackson, directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced by Oscar winner Graham King. The Lionsgate film grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, surpassing “Oppenheimer” as the highest-grossing biopic of all time. In the film, Long portrays Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson family, alongside Oscar nominee Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson and Jaafar Jackson, Michael Jackson’s nephew, as the king of pop.

Up next, Long executive produces and stars in the Netflix film “Don’t Ever Wonder,” reuniting with her “Love Jones” co-star Lorenz Tate. She is also set to star with Ice Cube in “Are We Done Yet?“, the third film in their “Are We There Yet?” family comedy franchise, and reprise her role in the next “Friday movie.”

Long’s memoir — which chronicles her life and career, including iconic roles in “Boyz n the Hood,” “The Best Man” franchise, “Soul Food,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” “Third Watch,” “Tyler Perry’s The Single Mom’s Club,” “Dear White People,” “Fatal Affair,” The Banker,” “Roxanne, Roxanne” and more — will be published in 2027.

Long is represented by Untitled Entertainment and Brecheen Feldman Breimer Silver & Thompson, LLP.

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