Josh O’Connor To Star In Kelly Reichardt’s Upcoming Art Heist Movie

After years of working in indie movie, actor Josh O’Connor had a breakout 2024 because of “Challengers” and “La Chimera.” Each movies put Hollywood on discover, and O’Connor’s reward? A job in Rian Johnson‘s subsequent “Knives Out” thriller, “Wake Up Dead Man.”

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However Deadline studies O’Connor’s newest casting sounds extra like his latest work with Luca Guadagnino and Alice Rohrwacher. This time the British actor will work with esteemed American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on her subsequent movie, “The Mastermind.” Official plot particulars stay below wraps, however the movie facilities on an artwork heist amidst the backdrop of the Vietnam Warfare.  Josh O’Connor peforming an artwork heist?  Sounds much like the trickstery archeological digs the actor does in “La Chimera.”

Minor similarities apart, it’s fairly the coup for O’Connor to work with Reichardt, who’s simply one of the crucial revered feminine filmmakers of her era.  And it helps that Reichardt is on a scorching streak too. Critics have adored has final couple of movies, with “Showing Up” rating on many high 10 lists for 2022 and “First Cow” doing the identical in 2020. However then, all of Reichardt’s movies obtain excessive marks from the press.

Reichardt works with filmscience once more for “The Mastermind,” which she’s performed for each one in all her characteristic movies since 2006’s “Old Joy.” Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, and Vinvent Savino produce by the banner.  MUBI can be concerned in financing the movie, and can distribute it in North American, the UK, and different components of Europe and Asia. MUBI additionally dealt with the distribution proper to “First Cow” in 2021.  The Match Manufacturing unit will deal with the remainder of the worldwide gross sales for “The Mastermind,” with UTA Worldwide Movie Group additionally concerned in financing.

Audiences may even see O’Connor subsequent in “Lee” reverse Kate Winslet. That movie, about mannequin and WWII photojournalist Lee Miller, had its world premiere at TIFF final yr and hits US theaters quickly. Different upcoming work for O’Connor past “Wake Up Dead Man” embrace “The History Of Sound” with Paul Mescal, which is able to seemingly obtain a 2025 theatrical launch, and Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming UFO blockbuster.

On paper, a Kelly Reichardt-Josh O’Connor team-up sounds incredible, and simply lands “The Mastermind” on probably the most anticipated movies record of 2025/2026. Keep tuned for extra particulars on the film quickly.