{"id":645824,"date":"2026-06-18T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645824\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:00:11","slug":"charles-melton-joins-daniels-next-film-starring-matt-damon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/645824\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Melton Joins Daniels Next Film Starring Matt Damon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/charles-melton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charles-melton\" data-tag=\"charles-melton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Melton<\/a> is the latest to join the upcoming project from Daniels as sources tell Deadline the Beef actor is in negotiations to join <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-damon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-damon\" data-tag=\"matt-damon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Damon<\/a> and Sandra Oh in the untitled event pic at Universal. Filmmaker duo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniels<\/a>, aka Daniel Kwan\u00a0and Daniel Scheinert, will write and direct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUniversal had no comment on the casting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDetails on the project remain under wraps. Kwan, Scheinert and Jonathan Wang will produce through their company Playgrounds\u2019 overall deal with Universal. Playgrounds\u2019 Kwan and Wang recently produced\u00a0The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist\u00a0from Universal\u2019s specialty studio Focus Features. It bowed in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExecutive VP Production Development Sara Scott and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the Daniels\u2019 new project for Universal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pic is set to bow on November 19, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMelton most recently was seen in the Netflix limited series Beef, which also starred Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan and Cailee Spaeney. Melton earned rave reviews for his perf and is expected to be in the thick of the award season contenders this Emmy season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn the film side, he starred in the Nic Refn pic Her Private Hell, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He is repped by CAA and 111 Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Charles Melton is the latest to join the upcoming project from Daniels as sources tell Deadline the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,136480,203601,96,2828,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-645824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charles-melton","tag-daniels","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-damon","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645824","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=645824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}