{"id":131205,"date":"2025-09-09T21:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131205\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:52:12","slug":"mads-mikkelsen-is-hired-to-kill-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131205\/","title":{"rendered":"Mads Mikkelsen Is Hired To Kill A Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a high-concept premise comes along that\u2019s so hooky, it\u2019s a wonder nobody has done it before. That\u2019s absolutely the case with Dust Bunny, and yet with its genre-mashing concept, it\u2019s also a feat of pure creativity. Hitman-and-kid movies aren\u2019t exactly new (hello, Leon<\/a>), but in Bryan Fuller\u2019s upcoming film, 10-year-old Aurora taps Mads Mikkelsen\u2019s hired gun for a very particular job: killing the monster under her bed. Just, how real is that monster? Check out the trailer:<\/p>\n

Fuller has long been a major voice on the small screen, as the showrunner behind Hannibal<\/a>, Pushing Daisies<\/a>, and the early days of Star Trek: Discovery<\/a>. But Dust Bunny marks his feature directorial debut, from a script he also wrote, and he\u2019s pulled together a stellar cast to mark the occasion \u2013 alongside Mikkelsen, he has Sigourney Weaver, David Dastmalchian, Rebecca Henderson and Sheila Atim. In the role of young Aurora is Sophie Sloan. Already, it looks like there are layers to the film: does the kid literally have a monster under her bed? Or has her kid-logic twisted some darker reality into a fantastical tale? The most important question, though, is where Weaver got those high-heel-pistols from.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the official synopsis: \u201cTen-year-old Aurora has a mysterious neighbor (Mads Mikkelsen) who kills real-life monsters. He\u2019s a hit man for hire. So, when Aurora needs help killing the monster she believes ate her entire family, she procures his services. Suspecting that her parents may have fallen victim to assassins gunning for him, Aurora\u2019s neighbor guiltily takes the job. Now, to protect her, he\u2019ll need to battle an onslaught of assassins \u2015 and accept that some monsters are real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dust Bunny is coming to US cinemas on 5 December \u2013 stay tuned for more info on a UK release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes a high-concept premise comes along that\u2019s so hooky, it\u2019s a wonder nobody has done it before. That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-131205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}