{"id":58823,"date":"2025-08-04T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58823\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:42:11","slug":"jt-mollner-has-written-a-nasty-passionate-horror-role-for-meryl-streep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58823\/","title":{"rendered":"JT Mollner Has Written a &#8220;Nasty, Passionate Horror Role&#8221; for Meryl Streep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JT Mollner, director of last year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/home-video\/3837064\/strange-darling-the-film-stephen-king-called-a-clever-masterpiece-heads-to-blu-ray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Strange Darling<\/a> and writer of this year\u2019s Stephen King adaptation <a href=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3889991\/the-long-walk-new-trailer-previews-a-harrowing-nightmare-from-the-mind-of-stephen-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Long Walk<\/a>, is shooting his shot over on Twitter. And it\u2019s one hell of a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Mollner tweets, \u201cI\u2019ve written something for Meryl Streep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it\u2019s a horror movie\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a nasty, passionate horror role like nothing she\u2019s ever played,\u201d Mollner continues. \u201cShe\u2019s our greatest living actor, so I know it\u2019s a long shot, but damn would it be cool if she said yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A three-time Oscar winner, Meryl Streep is known as one of the all-time greatest actors, but she hasn\u2019t been seen anywhere near the horror genre since Robert Zemeckis\u2019 comedy-horror Death Becomes Her back in 1992. Streep did work with Wes Craven back in 1999 on Music of the Heart, the rare film in Craven\u2019s filmography that was far outside the horror genre.<\/p>\n<p>Streep did play the Witch in the 2014 fantasy film Into the Woods, but it sounds like Mollner has something much more horrific in mind for Streep with this untitled project.<\/p>\n<p>Check out Mollner\u2019s tweet below and keep your fingers crossed for him. If anyone can take home an Academy Award for the horror genre, it\u2019s most definitely Meryl Streep!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019ve written something for Meryl Streep. It\u2019s a nasty, passionate horror role like nothing she\u2019s ever played. She\u2019s our greatest living actor, so I know it\u2019s a long shot, but damn would it be cool if she said yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JT Mollner (@jtmollner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jtmollner\/status\/1952458285371785677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JT Mollner, director of last year\u2019s Strange Darling and writer of this year\u2019s Stephen King adaptation The Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,44213,23416,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-58823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jt-mollner","10":"tag-meryl-streep","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}