{"id":436487,"date":"2026-05-20T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436487\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:58:08","slug":"selena-gomez-shocks-fans-by-joining-upcoming-x-rated-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/436487\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez shocks fans by joining upcoming X-rated movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Selena Gomez is continuing to shatter any remaining remnants of her Disney Channel image, booking her most provocative and mature role to date. <\/p>\n<p>Fresh details out of the Cannes Film Festival have confirmed that the actress and singer is officially attached to a mysterious, upcoming &#8220;X-rated&#8221; feature film from acclaimed director Brady Corbet (The Brutalist). Gomez isn&#8217;t the only heavy hitter jumping on board; she is set to star alongside Hollywood heavyweights Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/movies\/articles\/selena-gomez-takes-another-shocking-023000468.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Y Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The highly secretive project has already sent shockwaves through the industry due to its bold creative direction and star-studded lineup. Blanchett accidentally let slip during a Cannes masterclass that she was collaborating with Corbet, after which Variety and The InSneider confirmed that both <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/cate-blanchett-accidentally-leaks-new-film-with-selena-gomez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gomez<\/a> and Fassbender had signed on.<\/p>\n<p>A genre-defying epic<br \/>While plot details are being kept under strict lock and key, Corbet hasn&#8217;t held back regarding his massive creative ambitions for the untitled feature. Speaking about his vision, the filmmaker revealed the movie will deliberately lean into an &#8220;X-rated&#8221; territory and feature a massive, sprawling timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Timeline: The narrative spans centuries, beginning in the 19th century and moving all the way into the present day, with a heavy, stylistic focus on the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>The Scale: Corbet revealed at the Storyhouse Screenwriting Festival that the screenplay is a massive 200 pages. Considering his previous film, The Brutalist, ran for over three hours with a shorter script, audiences can expect a monumental cinematic experience.<\/p>\n<p>The Tech: To capture this ambitious vision, the production is reportedly being shot using ultra-rare, high-quality eight-perf 65mm cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Selena&#8217;s bold new chapter<br \/>For Gomez, this project represents another deliberate, fearless step into prestige, boundary-pushing cinema. While she has earned critical acclaim for her comedic timing in Hulu&#8217;s Only Murders in the Building, joining a raw, adult-oriented art-house project by a director known for intense, emotionally heavy dramas like Vox Lux signals a major shift in her career trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Morrison is set to produce the film through Kaplan Morrison. With an &#8220;X-rated&#8221; label, a centuries-spanning plot, and three of the biggest names in Hollywood at the forefront, the project is already cementing itself as one of the most highly anticipated films in development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/aysel-mammadzada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Aysel Mammadzada<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez is continuing to shatter any remaining remnants of her Disney Channel image, booking her most provocative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14400,4898,430,22481,156,96137,111,139,69,1999,223286],"class_list":["post-436487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cate-blanchett","tag-celebrities","tag-disney-channel","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-fassbender","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-selena-gomez","tag-xrated-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436487","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=436487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}