{"id":793891,"date":"2026-07-30T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:07:08","slug":"the-odyssey-star-john-leguizamo-joins-matt-damon-in-daniels-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793891\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; Star John Leguizamo Joins Matt Damon In Daniels Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After receiving some of the best reviews of his career on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-odyssey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-odyssey\" data-tag=\"the-odyssey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/john-leguizamo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_john-leguizamo\" data-tag=\"john-leguizamo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Leguizamo<\/a> is ready for his next voyage with <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> as sources tell Deadline that Leguizamo is in negotiations to join Damon in the untitled event project from filmmaking duo Daniels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniels<\/a>, aka Daniel Kwan\u00a0and Daniel Scheinert, are writing and directing. Sandra Oh, Sean Kaufman, Michael Gandolfini and Charles Melton are also in the cast.<\/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. 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 timing couldn\u2019t be more perfect, as the filmmakers were looking for a  last critical role in their new film just as The Odyssey was blowing away audiences around the world. Leguizamo\u2019s scene-stealing performance was all it took to get the Daniels\u2019 sign-off and an offer to fill the last major role in the film, which starts shooting later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLeguizamo and Universal look to continue their run of hits; he also recently shot Universal\u2019s upcoming Exorcist movie starring Scarlett Johansson. He also can be seen next in Bullet Catch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe is repped by UTA, Mosaic and Jackoway Austen Terman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After receiving some of the best reviews of his career on The Odyssey, John Leguizamo is ready&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,241585,88,10163,15281,12720],"class_list":["post-793891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-daniels","tag-entertainment","tag-john-leguizamo","tag-matt-damon","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793891","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=793891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}