{"id":278005,"date":"2026-02-03T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278005\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:18:08","slug":"the-riders-movie-casts-michael-smiley-danny-huston-camille-cottin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/278005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Riders Movie Casts Michael Smiley, Danny Huston, Camille Cottin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-smiley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-smiley\" data-tag=\"michael-smiley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Smiley<\/a> (Bad Sisters), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/danny-huston\/\" id=\"auto-tag_danny-huston\" data-tag=\"danny-huston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Huston<\/a> (The Aviator), <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/camille-cottin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_camille-cottin\" data-tag=\"camille-cottin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camille Cottin<\/a> (Call My Agent!), and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ulrich-thomsen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ulrich-thomsen\" data-tag=\"ulrich-thomsen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ulrich Thomsen<\/a> (Lanterns) have joined the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-riders\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-riders\" data-tag=\"the-riders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Riders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a24\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a24\" data-tag=\"a24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A24<\/a>\u2018s new film from Academy Award-winner Edward Berger, based on the Tim Winton novel of the same name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTaking place in multiple locations across Europe, production on the film kicked off today. No word on the roles to be played by the newcomers. As previously announced, Brad Pitt leads the cast, which also features Coco Greenstone and Julianne Nicholson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPublished in 1994, The Riders follows Scully, an Australian man who traverses Europe, alongside his young daughter Billie, in search of the wife that abandoned them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDavid Kajganich adapted the screenplay, with Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss aboard to produce for Scott Free, alongside Kajganich, Berger for Nine Hours, and Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, and Dede Gardner for Plan B Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReuniting Scott Free, Berger and Kajganich following their work together on AMC\u2019s The Terror, the project began coalescing a decade ago when Kajganich brought the novel to Scott Free and it caught the interest of Berger. A24 is financing the film and will handle its release worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAn Irish actor most recently seen in the series Bad Sisters (Apple TV) and Alien: Earth (FX), Smiley is represented by B-Side Management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKnown for roles in films like The Aviator and The Constant Gardener, Huston has most recently been seen starring opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount\u2019s reboot The Naked Gun. He is repped by Julian Belfrage Associates, UTA, and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCottin is a French actress known for roles in series like Call My Agent! and Killing Eve, whose recent film credits include Stillwater and A Haunting in Venice. She is repped by Agence Adequat, B-Side Management, and UTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThomsen is a Danish actor known for Banshee, The Blacklist, and The New Pope, among other projects. Soon to be seen in HBO\u2019s DC series Lanterns, he is repped by Artium Agency, Accelerate, and Link Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters), Danny Huston (The Aviator), Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!), and Ulrich Thomsen (Lanterns)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15608,134864,134865,93,61,60,134866,270,39092,134867],"class_list":["post-278005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a24","tag-camille-cottin","tag-danny-huston","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michael-smiley","tag-movies","tag-the-riders","tag-ulrich-thomsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}