{"id":573452,"date":"2026-05-08T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573452\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:21:12","slug":"bailey-portman-team-for-cycling-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573452\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey, Portman Team For Cycling Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bailey-portman-team-for-cycling-drama.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bailey-portman-team-for-cycling-drama.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"bailey-portman-team-for-cycling-drama\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWicked\u201d and \u201cJurassic World: Rebirth\u201d star Jonathan Bailey has locked in the sports psychological thriller \u201cPumping Black\u201d alongside acting veteran Natalie Portman.<\/p>\n<p>The story is set in the competitive and cutthroat world of professional cycling and follows cyclist Taylor Mace (Bailey), who is finding himself aging out of the sport at 35 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He is taken under the wing of Andrea Lathe (Portman), a doctor driven by her own thirst for victory and power. As the race to the Tour de France progresses, Taylor must take increasingly dark measures to protect his secret. <\/p>\n<p>The film is reportedly in the tone of \u201cBlack Swan\u201d and \u201cWhiplash,\u201d and dubbed an \u201cadrenaline-fuelled, dangerous thriller\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mimi Cave, who directed 2022\u2019s \u201cFresh\u201d starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Sebastian Stan, along with 2025\u2019s \u201cHolland\u201d starring Nicole Kidman, will helm the film from a script by Haley Hope Bartels.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Sher, S\u00e9bastien Raybaud, Portman and Sophie Mas will produce the film, which will shoot this Fall.  Anton is backing the project and launching sales for it at Cannes.<\/p>\n<p>Bailey, voted 2025\u2019s Sexiest Man Alive by People Magazine, has been an avid cyclist and participant in marathons and triathlons for many years, all in the name of good causes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/jonathan-bailey-natalie-portman-thriller-pumping-black-1236741228\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures \u201cWicked\u201d and \u201cJurassic World: Rebirth\u201d star Jonathan Bailey has locked in the sports psychological thriller \u201cPumping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[94966,4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-bigslider","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573452","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=573452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}