{"id":679366,"date":"2026-07-07T23:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679366\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:23:10","slug":"john-goodman-joins-brie-larson-in-skeletons-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/679366\/","title":{"rendered":"John Goodman Joins Brie Larson In &#8216;Skeletons&#8217; Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-goodman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-goodman\" data-tag=\"john-goodman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Goodman<\/a> has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/brie-larson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brie-larson\" data-tag=\"brie-larson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brie Larson<\/a> in the Sony Pictures thriller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/skeletons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Skeletons<\/a>. JT Mollner is directing the pic. Kyle Gallner, Willa Fitzgerald, Ione Skye and Daith\u00ed \u00d3 Harag\u00e1in also are on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is a modern take on creature horror movies told from the perspective of a young boy who slowly begins to discover his beloved parents are hiding a disturbing secret about his mother\u2019s true nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBrian Duffield wrote the initial screenplay based off the short story by Phillip Fracassi, with revisions by Mollner. Sony Pictures picked up worldwide rights during this year\u2019s European Film Market with FilmNation, WME, and CAA handling the sale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe movie hails from FilmNation Entertainment\u2019s production label Infrared, J.J. Abrams\u2019 Bad Robot Productions, and Assemble Media. Drew Simon, Abrams and Jon Cohen will produce along with Jack Heller. Assemble\u2019s Caitlin de Lisser-Ellen and Duffield will exec produce as will\u00a0Roy Lee and Steven Schneider. Larson and Fracassi are also exec producing. Infrared is financing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSkeletons sees\u00a0Goodman\u00a0reunited with Abrams, having starred in\u00a010 Cloverfield Lane\u00a0which Abrams produced. He co-stars alongside Larson once again after they appeared together in\u00a0The Gambler\u00a0and\u00a0Kong: Skull Island. The Golden Globe and Emmy winner\u2018s additional credits include\u00a0Barton Fink,\u00a0The Big Lebowski\u00a0and\u00a0Argo. Next, he will be seen in Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s\u00a0Digger\u00a0starring Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGoodman\u00a0is repped by Gersh and Frankfurt Kurnit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: John Goodman has joined Brie Larson in the Sony Pictures thriller\u00a0Skeletons. JT Mollner is directing the pic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[127767,96,23523,2839,61139,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-679366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-brie-larson","tag-entertainment","tag-john-goodman","tag-movies","tag-skeletons","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679366","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=679366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}