Since the last Matthias Schoenaerts news I'd heard before this morning was decidedly not great -- he got in legal trouble last year for allegedly driving drunk -- we're going to seize onto this more positive news because we're really rooting for the big lug to turn his shit around. This is all Terrence Malick's fault -- if Malick would just finish his damn Jesus movie The Way of the Wind Matty (who's playing Peter) would have some career momentum again. As is it's only been the terrible terrible terrible sequel to The Old Guard (and how fucking bizarre that I have just had to mention that movie two posts in a row) that Schoenaerts has had come out since The Regime, his super-fun and under-appreciated fascism-comedy with Kate Winslet. There are several other projects in his "upcoming" slate -- I talked about a couple last May right here -- but today there's headline-at-Deadline news on another one and we love to see it. Even if... well movies headlined by Halle Berry aren't exactly burning up the box office in 2026. There is a big plus in the plus column on this project though -- it's being written and directed by Ellie Foumbi, who made the fan-fucking-tastic French horror movie Our Father, the Devil in 2021. This would be her follow-up to that. Anyway I should probably get to what "this" is, huh? Here's how Deadline describes it:
"Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone), Makita Samba (Paris, 13th District) and Marton Csokas (The Equalizer) have joined Halle Berry in Fleur as filming begins in Paris this week. Berry stars as a New York housewife who flees the U.S. and her husband of thirty years (Csokas) to reinvent herself in Paris as Fleur, an upscale escort and dominatrix carving out her own power and identity. As her past collides with her new life, the question isn’t just whether she’ll return, but whether she can."
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