Brat summer time may be formally over, however Charli XCX season is simply getting began. For quickly will arrive the subsequent stage in her evolution to preeminent pop girlie standing: a lead position in 100 Nights of Hero, which comes after she signed on for roles in Faces of Dying and Gregg Araki’s I Need Your Intercourse, in case you thought there was something she could not do. And she or he’s not the one on-line fave who has joined the forged of the approaching adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s queer graphic novel—Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine and Longlegs’ Maika Monroe are all set to star this jam-packed ensemble of the web’s foremost characters, per Deadline. Who forged this, PopCrave?
They’re large on X for good purpose. Corrin simply starred reverse Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool & Wolverine, with a Letterboxd-friendly half to come back in Robert Eggers’ new Nosferatu remake. Since his mainstream breakout in final 12 months’s Purple, White and Royal Blue, Galitzine has steadily staked a declare as one in all Hollywood’s up-and-coming main males, having starred as Anne Hathaway’s pop star muse in hit rom-com The Concept of You earlier this 12 months. After which there’s Monroe, whose Longlegs was one of many largest pound-for-pound Hollywood success tales of 2024, being the en-vogue horror film that everybody was speaking about over the summer time.
Oh, and it has a scorching director, too: Julia Jackman, whose coming-of-age debut Bonus Monitor, co-written by Josh O’Connor, was well-received earlier this 12 months.
However what’s 100 Nights of Hero truly about?
Good query! It is based mostly on a graphic novel by Isabel Greenberg that was printed in 2016, which takes place in Medieval occasions and was impressed by The Arabian Nights. The story considerations a girl known as Cherry whose husband Jerome gambles her freedom in a wager along with his pal Manfred, the wager being that in Manfred can seduce Cherry in 100 nights, he can preserve her—and Jerome’s expansive fort. However there is a sapphic twist. Cherry is definitely in love along with her maid, the titular Hero, who units in movement a plan to maintain Cherry out of Manfred’s grasp.
The logline for the movie supplied by Deadline means that the difference will take some inventive liberties. In line with them, Galitzine will painting a “charming houseguest” at a distant fort who watches because the “delicate dynamic between a neglectful husband, his harmless bride Cherry (Monroe), and their devoted maid Hero (Corrin) is thrown into chaos.” How far the movie will deviate from the supply materials is but to be decided—as is the position to be performed by Charli XCX. What would one bump within the Darkish Ages, anyway? Will the apple be poisoned to the core, this time, per fairytale custom? Good questions all.
When is 100 Nights of Hero popping out?
No thought! Greater than 100 nights, that is for positive. Hold an eye fixed out for updates.
This story initially appeared in British GQ.
