{"id":548116,"date":"2026-07-28T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548116\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:28:08","slug":"nyff-sets-world-premiere-of-tony-gilroys-behemoth-with-pedro-pascal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/548116\/","title":{"rendered":"NYFF Sets World Premiere Of Tony Gilroy’s \u2018Behemoth!\u2019 With Pedro Pascal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York Film Festival<\/a> unveiled the world premiere of Tony Gilroy<\/a>\u2019s Behemoth! starring Pedro Pascal<\/a> as the Centerpiece selection at its upcoming 64th edition.<\/p>\n

\n\tPascal plays Alex, a cellist picking up the pieces of a fractured life in the Searchlight Pictures drama. A former child prodigy living in the shadow of a storied musical family, Alex has left his position with an orchestra in Chicago, fleeing a soured relationship with a manic ex (Olivia Wilde), and returned to LA to resolve unfinished family business and record Hollywood film scores. The production employs a panoply of original movie compositions in a soundtrack featuring some of the industry\u2019s leading musicians.<\/p>\n

\n\tEva Victor, Alexa Swinton, Kaya Ralls, Erik Griffin, JoBeth Williams and Margarita Levieva also star, with Hank Azaria and Will Arnett.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have been orbiting NYFF for the great majority of my life,\u201d said Gilroy. \u201cI was baptized by Fitzcarraldo. I was tending bar across the street and a customer tipped me a single ticket. It was a bad seat to the most remarkable screening I\u2019d ever attended. There were many memorable nights to follow. The Centerpiece invitation is a fantasy I\u2019ve conjured more times than I care to admit. NYFF has always been the benchmark for me; the opportunity to premiere a film I cannot wait to show, in that hall, to that audience, feels every bit as thrilling as I\u2019d imagined. I\u2019m honored.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe award-winning writer, director and producer made his feature directorial debut with Oscar-nominated Michael Clayton, going on to write and directed Duplicity and The Bourne Legacy. Gilroy wrote the first three Bourne films and co-wrote Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which grossed more than $1 billion worldwide. Other writing credits include Beirut, State of Play, Armageddon, The Devil\u2019s Advocate, Dolores Claiborne, Proof of Life, Extreme Measures and The Cutting Edge. He created Lucasfilm\u2019s Emmy-nominated series Andor. <\/p>\n

\n\tBehemoth! will screen Friday, Oct. 2 ahead of a Dec. 4 theatrical release. Trailer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is so much to savor in this immaculately crafted film, from its creative use of music to its note-perfect ensemble cast. Holding it all together is a tour de force by Pedro Pascal, one of the performances of the year from one of our true movie stars,\u201d said NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim.<\/p>\n

\n\tNYFF runs September 25 through October 12. James Gray\u2019s Paper Tiger will open the fest<\/a>. The world premiere of Ava DuVernay documentary 14th is the closing night<\/a> film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Film Festival unveiled the world premiere of Tony Gilroy\u2019s Behemoth! starring Pedro Pascal as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[840,430,156,19000,111,139,69,10517,269281],"class_list":["post-548116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-behemoth","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pedro-pascal","tag-tony-gilroy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548116","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=548116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}