{"id":927134,"date":"2026-10-10T00:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927134\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:18:13","slug":"lakeith-stanfield-ben-mendelsohn-to-star-in-molepeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927134\/","title":{"rendered":"LaKeith Stanfield, Ben Mendelsohn to Star in &#8216;Molepeople&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/lakeith-stanfield\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lakeith-stanfield_1\" data-tag=\"lakeith-stanfield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LaKeith Stanfield<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ben-mendelsohn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-mendelsohn_1\" data-tag=\"ben-mendelsohn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Mendelsohn<\/a> are set to star in Molepeople, a horror feature that sees the teaming of two horror powerhouses, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/blumhouse-atomic-monster\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blumhouse-atomic-monster_1\" data-tag=\"blumhouse-atomic-monster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blumhouse Atomic Monster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/paramount-primal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-primal_1\" data-tag=\"paramount-primal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount Primal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe feature will be co-financed and co-produced by Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Paramount, with Paramount handling worldwide distribution. A release date of Aug. 27, 2027 has been set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRob Savage, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/other-mommy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_other-mommy_1\" data-tag=\"other-mommy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Other Mommy<\/a> opening this weekend, will direct the horror thriller, which has a script by Nathan Elston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe logline concerns a man who descends into the abandoned tunnels beneath New York City, where he discovers a twisted society lurking beneath the streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSources say production is due to begin at the end of November or in early December in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tProducers include Jason Blum, Primal\u2019s J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, and James Harris. Executive producers include Ryan Turek, Tracy Rosenblum, Elston, and Savage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe project was previously in development as an indie but moved to Paramount when Lifshitz and Margules created Primal, their genre label.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStanfield recently appeared in Boots Riley\u2019s well-regarded I Love Boosters and starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in Amazon\u2019s Play Dirty. He is repped by CAA and Stark Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWME-repped Mendelsohn is coming of the Venice Film Festival premiere of Company, a thriller directed by Casey Affleck that also stars Scoot McNairy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaKeith Stanfield and Ben Mendelsohn are set to star in Molepeople, a horror feature that sees the teaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[69203,136841,49,48,75,69207,337,79236,318496],"class_list":["post-927134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-mendelsohn","tag-blumhouse-atomic-monster","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-lakeith-stanfield","tag-movies","tag-other-mommy","tag-paramount-primal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927134","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=927134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}