{"id":803569,"date":"2026-10-15T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803569\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:46:09","slug":"zendaya-to-star-in-alex-garlands-a24-sci-fi-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803569\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya To Star In Alex Garland&#8217;s A24 Sci-Fi Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2026 has been a pretty big year for Zendaya, by all accounts. Already the star of the year&#8217;s two biggest movies thus far, Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/the-odyssey-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Odyssey<\/a> and Destin Daniel Cretton&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/spider-man-brand-new-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a>, the in-demand actor also has a little movie you may have heard of called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/dune-part-three-trailer-paul-atreides-war-denis-villeneuve-final-chapter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dune: Part Three<\/a> coming in just a couple of months&#8217; time. And now, per <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/zendaya-joins-alex-garland-sci-fi-film-a24-1237157801\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Deadline<\/a>&#8216;s reporting, another exciting project has just been added to the Zendaya pipeline: Alex Garland&#8217;s secretive new A24 sci-fi movie.<\/p>\n<p>With Garland having recently wrapped shooting on his ambitious upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/news\/elden-ring-movie-production-begins-alex-garland-imax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elden Ring adaptation at A24,<\/a> shooting on his latest movie \u2014 which continues a fruitful relationship with the studio that&#8217;s previously produced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Men<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/civil-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civil War<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/warfare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Warfare<\/a> \u2014 is due to get underway next year. And while we don&#8217;t know what it is set to entail just yet, the casting of Zendaya \u2014 who&#8217;s just led her own A24 hit in Kristoffer Borgli&#8217;s discourse-stoking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/the-drama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Drama<\/a> \u2014 is something to get stoked for already.<\/p>\n<p>Having cut his directorial teeth on the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/ex-machina-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ex Machina<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/movies\/reviews\/annihilation-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Annihilation<\/a>, Alex Garland has been switching up genre modes in recent years, flitting between war dramas like the above-mentioned Warfare and Civil War, and then more esoteric fare like Men and a writing return to zombie horror with the 28 Years Later movies. As such, the prospect of a proper sci-fi homecoming for Garland is very exciting indeed. Watch this space for more as shooting gets underway in the coming months&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 has been a pretty big year for Zendaya, by all accounts. 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