{"id":543772,"date":"2026-04-22T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:40:08","slug":"melissa-mccarthy-circling-turpentine-thriller-from-craig-zobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/543772\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa McCarthy Circling &#8216;Turpentine&#8217; Thriller From Craig Zobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/melissa-mccarthy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_melissa-mccarthy\" data-tag=\"melissa-mccarthy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa McCarthy<\/a> is in talks to star in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/turpentine\/\" id=\"auto-tag_turpentine\" data-tag=\"turpentine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turpentine<\/a>, a new thriller directed by The Penguin and Mare of Easttown\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/craig-zobel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_craig-zobel\" data-tag=\"craig-zobel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Zobel<\/a>, Deadline has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on a script by Justin Varava that <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/the-black-list-2024-movies-1236199672\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made the 2024 Black List,<\/a> Turpentine follows a deadbeat son who hires friends to rob his own parents to pay off a bookie, with disastrous results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/t-street\/\" id=\"auto-tag_t-street\" data-tag=\"t-street\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T-Street<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shivhans-pictures\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shivhans-pictures\" data-tag=\"shivhans-pictures\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ShivHans Pictures<\/a> are set to produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe recipient of multiple Emmys and a pair of Oscar nominations for Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Bridesmaids, McCarthy next will be seen starring opposite Clive Owen in Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey on Paramount+. Upcoming, she\u2019ll also be heard voicing a lead role opposite Tony winner Cole Escola in Warner Bros. Pictures Animation\u2019s Margie Claus. She is repped by CAA and Mgmt Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tZobel is a filmmaker who broke out with such pics as Compliance and Z for Zachariah before making his way to prestige television, with credits on The Leftovers, American Gods, Westworld, Mare of Easttown and The Penguin. A DGA Award winner and three-time Emmy nominee, he also helmed the satirical horror film The Hunt starring Betty Gilpin and Hilary Swank. He is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRian Johnson and Ram Bergman\u2019s T-Street is coming off of Wake Up Dead Man, the third film in their Knives Out franchise. Upcoming, they have Sony Pictures Classics\u2019 The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, starring John Turturro, and Neon\u2019s A Place in Hell, starring Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRecent credits for ShivHans Pictures include Ice Road: Vengeance, The Wedding Banquet, Winner, and The Assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVarava is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award nominee Melissa McCarthy is in talks to star in Turpentine, a new thriller directed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,187296,96,170485,187297,187298,187299,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-543772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-craig-zobel","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-melissa-mccarthy","12":"tag-shivhans-pictures","13":"tag-t-street","14":"tag-turpentine","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543772","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=543772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}