{"id":251150,"date":"2025-10-30T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251150\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:51:08","slug":"charlize-theron-to-star-in-culinary-thriller-tyrant-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251150\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron To Star In Culinary Thriller ‘Tyrant’ At Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Charlize Theron<\/a> is in final negotiations to star in and produce the Amazon MGM Studios pic Tyrant<\/a> from writer-director David Weil<\/a>. Weil is directing from a script he wrote, with The Picture Company\u2019s\u00a0Alex\u00a0Heineman and Andrew Rona producing. Theron will also produce through her Secret Menu banner alongside her partners Beth Kono and A.J. Dix. Weil and producing partner Natalie Laine Williams will also produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon and Picture Company landed the coveted spec<\/a> in August after a bidding war, with the project being fast-tracked once Theron showed interest. Theron will now star in the film, but sources say there is another leading female role being cast that has been coveted around town, suggesting a pair of tour de force performances await.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPlot details are vague other then Tyrant is said to have shades of Wall Street and Whiplash set in NYC\u2019s high-end culinary world.\u00a0It is based on a story by Weil and Cody Behan.<\/p>\n

\n\tWeil\u00a0recently sold the spec Supermax to Miramax (he co-wrote with David J. Rosen), which now has David Gordon Green attached to direct<\/a> and is also heading for a spring start with The Picture Company producing. He\u00a0is also currently adapting for United Artists and Conclave director Edward Berger the film about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who was thrown into a Russian prison for a year on bogus spying charges. Weil is also writing\u00a0Extraction 3\u00a0for Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\tUpcoming Secret Menu projects include the Netflix original thriller\u00a0Apex, starring Theron and Taron Egerton and written by Jeremy Robbins, with Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur directing; a limited series adaptation of horror novel\u00a0The Quiet Tenant\u00a0with Blumhouse, written by Anthony E. Zuiker;\u00a0Jane, a psychological thriller feature loosely based on the life of prolific science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, being written by Jack Thorne and to be directed by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n; and\u00a0Two for the Money, a love letter to the heist-film genre directed by Justin Lin, written by Dan Mazeau and starring Theron. Theron will also appear in Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey<\/a> next summer.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Picture Company is coming off of the eight-time Oscar-nominated A Complete Unknown and Studiocanal\u2019s James McAvoy-Julianne Moore thriller Control in post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Theron is represented by CAA and Hansen Jacobson Teller. Weil is represented by CAA and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Charlize Theron is in final negotiations to star in and produce the Amazon MGM Studios pic Tyrant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,11773,117286,75,117287],"class_list":{"0":"post-251150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-charlize-theron","12":"tag-david-weil","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-tyrant"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}