{"id":469235,"date":"2026-02-09T21:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469235\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:42:49","slug":"keira-knightley-alicia-vikander-jamie-dornan-to-star-in-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469235\/","title":{"rendered":"Keira Knightley, Alicia Vikander &#038; Jamie Dornan To Star In \u2018The Worst\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/keira-knightley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_keira-knightley\" data-tag=\"keira-knightley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keira Knightley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/alicia-vikander\/\" id=\"auto-tag_alicia-vikander\" data-tag=\"alicia-vikander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alicia Vikander<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jamie-dornan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jamie-dornan\" data-tag=\"jamie-dornan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Dornan<\/a> are set to star in the dark comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-worst\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-worst\" data-tag=\"the-worst\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Worst<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProtagonist Pictures and Logical Pictures International are launching world sales at the upcoming European Film Market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is written and will be directed by Simon Woods (Hansard). Producers are Andy Berg and John Sachs of Eclipse Films, alongside Josh Hyams of Promise Pictures. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fiore, Ryan Wickers and Andrei Kamarowsky serve as executive producers for Logical Pictures Group, alongside Dave Bishop, James Pugh, and George Hamilton for Protagonist. Erin Kellyman rounds out the cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLogical Content Venture will finance, while UTA Independent Film Group will co-represent domestic rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film\u2019s synopsis reads: Socialite Emily Fisher (Vikander) and her husband Max invite their equally wealthy friends to their new chateau in France for the night. Among the guests are a group of people who really can\u2019t stand each other: Holly (Knightley), a struggling diversity consultant who continuously clashes with everyone until she gets a migraine, and Danny (Dornan), a quick-witted talent agent that name-drops his client list every chance he gets. As the evening begins to unravel and dark secrets are revealed, waitress Niamh (Kellyman) finds herself right in the middle of their chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI want audiences to have a great time watching The Worst \u2014 to be drawn in by these vivid, over-the-top comic characters, their messy, uncomfortable relationships, and the squirm of it all,\u201d Woods said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI want to dare the audience to like these people, bringing them right up to the line of almost agreeing with them, and in doing so, hold a satirical mirror up to the moment we\u2019re living in. We\u2019re building a film full of twists and turns, and there\u2019s no better dream ensemble than this one to deliver every unexpected beat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keira Knightley, Alicia Vikander and Jamie Dornan are set to star in the dark comedy The Worst.\u00a0 Protagonist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28741,64,63,237401,134,148844,111844,344,239728],"class_list":["post-469235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alicia-vikander","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-efm","tag-entertainment","tag-jamie-dornan","tag-keira-knightley","tag-movies","tag-the-worst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469235","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=469235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}