{"id":433604,"date":"2026-05-18T16:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433604\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:32:23","slug":"john-boyega-cara-delevingne-in-the-punishing-first-look-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433604\/","title":{"rendered":"John Boyega & Cara Delevingne In \u2018The Punishing\u2019: First Look Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: While Cara Delevingne<\/a>\u2019s buzzy Cannes<\/a> UCR title Club Kid takes the festival by storm, the actress is also starring in a buzzy market horror in the shape of The Punishing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we previously revealed, Delevingne stars with Star Wars alum John Boyega<\/a> in the supernatural movie. Today we can reveal first look images and more details.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpooky Pictures, Redwire Pictures, and Tiki Tane Pictures are behind the project, which is written and directed by Chris Sparling (Buried).<\/p>\n

\n\tCurrently in post and said to be rooted in Scandinavian folklore, The Punishing\u00a0is set on a remote Icelandic island \u201cwhere a man miraculously recovers from a terminal illness\u2014but his wife soon discovers the land\u2019s healing powers come at a terrifying price\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tIgnite is representing international sales for the film and launching dealmaking at the Cannes market<\/a>, alongside WME Independent and UTA Independent Film Group representing domestic rights.<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers are Steven Schneider of Spooky Pictures, William Shockley and Tom Brady of Tiki Tane Pictures, Luke Daniels of Redwire Pictures, Andrew Corkin of Uncorked Productions and Boyega. The film was fully financed by Redwire and Tiki Tane.<\/p>\n

\n\tAli Benmohamed, Allen Gilmer, Alois Rudenbauer, Amaury Nolasco, Daya Fernandez, George Henry Horton, Jim Burnett, Jordan Dykstra, Kevin Zhou, Kurt Fethke, Lucas Jarach, Riki Rushing, Savoy Brummer,\u00a0Simmy Wolf,\u00a0Tiiu Loigu, and Ben Ross serve as executive producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSparling is represented by UTA. Boyega is represented by Strand Entertainment and Sloane, Offer. Delevingne is represented by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Sloane, Offer. Schneider is represented by UTA.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJohn Boyega in \u2018Punishing\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiiu Loigu<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tCara Delevingne in \u2018Punishing\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTiiu Loigu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: While Cara Delevingne\u2019s buzzy Cannes UCR title Club Kid takes the festival by storm, the actress is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35493,202805,46555,156,29674,409,111,139,69,221985],"class_list":["post-433604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-market","tag-cara-delevingne","tag-entertainment","tag-john-boyega","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-punishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}