{"id":929293,"date":"2026-10-15T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929293\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:22:14","slug":"zendaya-joins-alex-garlands-next-sci-fi-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929293\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya Joins Alex Garland&#8217;s Next Sci-Fi Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sony Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"zendaya-has-had-talks-about-bourne\"\/><\/a>Sony Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Zendaya has signed on to join \u201cEx Machina\u201d and \u201cCivil War\u201d writer\/director Alex Garland\u2019s next film at A24.<\/p>\n<p>Currently untitled, the sci-fi project is set to film next year and plot specifics are very much under wraps.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark Zendaya\u2019s third collaboration with A24 following their work together on HBO\u2019s \u201cEuphoria\u201d across three seasons, along with the dark \u201cThe Drama\u201d co-starring Robert Pattinson.<\/p>\n<p>Garland, who has penned the \u201c28 Days Later\u201d and \u201c28 Years Later\u201d films, \u201cSunshine,\u201d \u201cDredd,\u201d \u201cAnnihilation,\u201d and \u201cWarfare,\u201d most recently shot the film adaptation of the popular video game \u201cElden Ring\u201d which stars Kit Connor and Cailee Spaeny.<\/p>\n<p>That has been in post-production since August and is expected to continue into next year.  This project, his sixth with A24, will be his next film.<\/p>\n<p>Zendaya starred in two of the year\u2019s biggest films with \u201cSpider-Man: Brand New Day\u201d and \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d along with the upcoming \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/zendaya-to-star-in-alex-garland-sci-fi-film-a24-1236912811\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Zendaya has signed on to join \u201cEx Machina\u201d and \u201cCivil War\u201d writer\/director Alex Garland\u2019s next film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-929293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929293","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=929293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}