{"id":50152,"date":"2025-08-07T10:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50152\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:57:09","slug":"tyriq-withers-in-jordan-peele-produced-football-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/50152\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyriq Withers In Jordan Peele-Produced Football Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlon Wayans<\/a> is getting back in the scary movie<\/a> game with \u201cHim.\u201d Wayans acts as an elusive former NFL star who preys on a quarterback, played by real life former college wide-receiver and recent \u201cI Know What You Did Last Summer\u201d star Tyriq Withers<\/a>, whose professional is cut short.<\/p>\n

Oscar winner Jordan Peele<\/a>\u2018s Monkeypaw Productions is behind the feature that is billed to be a \u201cchilling journey into the inner sanctum of fame, idolatry, and the pursuit of excellence at any cost.\u201d <\/p>\n

The film<\/a>\u2018s official synopsis<\/a> reads: \u201cWhat would you sacrifice to become the greatest of all time? \u2018Him\u2019 stars former college wide-receiver Tyriq Withers as Cameron Cade, a rising-star quarterback who has devoted his life, and identity, to football. On the eve of professional football\u2019s annual scouting Combine, Cam is attacked by an unhinged fan and suffers a potentially career-ending brain trauma. Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero, Isaiah White (Wayans), a legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar, offers to train Cam at Isaiah\u2019s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife, Elsie White (Julia Fox). But as Cam\u2019s training accelerates, Isaiah\u2019s charisma begins to curdle into something darker, sending his prot\u00e9g\u00e9 down a disorienting rabbit hole that may cost him more than he ever bargained for.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Connor<\/a> \"Aubrey<\/a> <\/p>\n

Tim Heidecker, Jim Jefferies, MMA heavyweight fighter Maurice Greene, hip hop artist Guapdad 4000, and Grammy nominee Tierra Whack co-star. Justin Tipping directs from Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie\u2019s\u00a0Black List screenplay<\/a>; Tipping is also credited as a co-writer on the final version.<\/p>\n

Peele is producing \u201cHim,\u201d along with Ian Cooper, Win Rosenfeld, and Jamal M. Watson for Monkeypaw Productions. David Kern and Monkeypaw\u2019s Kate Oh executive produce. Universal announced a five-year deal with Peele and Monkeypaw in 2019.<\/p>\n

Peele\u2019s own fourth feature is in the works, with the director teasing that it\u2019s his \u201cfavorite movie<\/a>\u201d yet. \u201cI do feel like my next project is clear to me,\u201d Peele said during podcast\u00a0\u201cConan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in 2024, \u201cand I\u2019m psyched that I have another film that, you know, could be my favorite movie if I make it right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Universal Pictures will release \u201cHim\u201d in theaters September 19. Check out the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marlon Wayans is getting back in the scary movie game with \u201cHim.\u201d Wayans acts as an elusive former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2332,27831,27832,2839,7021,27833,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-50152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-jordan-peele","tag-marlon-wayans","tag-movies","tag-trailers","tag-tyriq-withers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50152","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=50152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}