{"id":676402,"date":"2026-11-06T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676402\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T04:28:09","slug":"priyanka-chopra-jonas-sci-fi-thriller-bluefly-adds-daniel-macpherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676402\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra Jonas Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Bluefly’ Adds Daniel MacPherson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDaniel MacPherson<\/a>, who recently starred opposite Russell Crowe<\/a> in \u201cBeast,\u201d has signed on for \u201cBluefly<\/a>,\u201d a science-fiction action thriller toplined by Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPredators\u201d filmmaker Nimr\u00f3d Antal is directing.<\/p>\n

\n\tMacPherson will play Dugan, a Special Forces soldier toughened by years of combat, joining the film\u2019s two leads.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film unfolds in the Congo. Chopra Jonas plays a U.N. translator, still mourning a loss, who gets pulled into a secret operation to retrieve an enigmatic aircraft that has gone down.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe script comes from David Frigerio (\u201cBeast\u201d), William Eubank (\u201cUnderwater\u201d) and Carlyle Eubank (\u201cMuzzle\u201d). The casting brings MacPherson back together with both Crowe and Frigerio following \u201cBeast,\u201d the mixed martial arts action film in which the two actors shared the screen and which Frigerio wrote.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Jefferson is producing through Polite Society, alongside Frigerio via Broken Open Pictures, Deborah Glover of G2 Dispatch, Highland Film Group\u2019s Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier, and Vanessa Yao Guo. Guy Davies, RuthAnne Frigerio, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Jason Kringstein, Katie Leary, Scott Levenson and James Norbury serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tCameras are set to roll shortly on Australia\u2019s Gold Coast, where principal photography on the Congo-set story will take place.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond \u201cBeast,\u201d MacPherson\u2019s big-screen r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes \u201cLand of Bad,\u201d \u201cPoker Face,\u201d \u201cA Wrinkle in Time,\u201d \u201cThe Osiris Child\u201d and \u201cInfini.\u201d His TV work spans \u201cFoundation,\u201d \u201cStrike Back,\u201d \u201cAPB\u201d and \u201cThe Shannara Chronicles,\u201d giving him a long track record in action and genre fare across both film and series.<\/p>\n

\n\tMacPherson is represented by Entertainment 360, Buchwald and Benchmark Creative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel MacPherson, who recently starred opposite Russell Crowe in \u201cBeast,\u201d has signed on for \u201cBluefly,\u201d a science-fiction action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[286527,286528,93,61,60,270,37553,7881],"class_list":["post-676402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bluefly","tag-daniel-macpherson","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-priyanka-chopra-jonas","tag-russell-crowe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676402","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=676402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}