{"id":358264,"date":"2026-01-08T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358264\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:58:07","slug":"david-harbour-bows-out-of-tony-gilroys-behemoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358264\/","title":{"rendered":"David Harbour bows out of Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behemoth!, Tony Gilroy\u2019s first post-Andor project, has reportedly undergone another casting shakeup. The enthusiastically-titled film first came upon our radar in August<\/a>, when it was reported that Pedro Pascal was eying a role in the film that had once belonged to Oscar Isaac. Now, Variety reports<\/a> that recent Stranger Things graduate David Harbour has also stepped away from the project, which Searchlight Pictures has since confirmed. The role has been recast, but the studio has declined to name who will now appear alongside Pascal and Olivia Wilde in the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Variety\u2018s source cited a need for rest after the prolonged rollout of Stranger Things\u2018 final season, which aired in three parts between Thanksgiving 2025 and New Years 2026 and which the cast promoted heavily. Harbour\u2019s personal life was also pretty high-profile grist for the celebrity relationship drama mill following the release of ex-wife Lily Allen\u2019s album West End Girl<\/a>; we\u2019re speculating a bit, of course, but we would guess that that would also be a pretty tiring thing to live through.<\/p>\n

Harbour was pretty vocal for years about looking forward to the end of Stranger Things. \u201cI want to make original movies that go to the movie theaters,\u201d he told Business Insider in 2023<\/a>. Talking to Scarlett Johansson for Interview magazine last June<\/a>, Harbour also said, \u201cWhen I started [Stranger Things] I loved it so much. Buddies of mine who\u2019d done TV shows for many years said, \u2018By season three or four you\u2019ll be running.\u2019 And I was like, \u201cNever! I love all these guys so much.\u201d And then you get to a certain point where you\u2019re like\u2026 \u2018I want to take a risk. I want to do something that people haven\u2019t seen me do before.\u2019 So yeah, after 10 years, it\u2019s like, \u2018Okay.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behemoth!, Tony Gilroy\u2019s first post-Andor project, has reportedly undergone another casting shakeup. The enthusiastically-titled film first came upon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-358264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}