Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis & More Join 'Freaky Tales'

Ben Mendelsohn and Jack Champion also star in the film from ‘Captain Marvel’ directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

EOne and Macro’s upcoming drama Freaky Tales has assembled an A-listing solid to carry its unique story to life. According to Deadline, Pedro Pascal, Ben Mendelsohn, Jay Ellis, and Jack Champion were solid to play the main roles inside the drama. The cast is rounded out by way of Angus Cloud, Dominique Thorne, Keir Gilchrist, and Michelle Farrah Huang.

Freaky Tales is the advent of celebrated filmmaking duo Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, first-class recognized for writing and directing the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Captain Marvel, a box office hit that became the franchise’s first woman superhero-led film. The tale may be loosely primarily based on Fleck’s formative years revel in developing up in Oakland, California, and could discover real-lifestyles places in addition to outstanding historical occasions. However, some fictional factors could be thrown in for dramatic effect. Set in Eighties Oakland, Freaky Tales will revolve around 4 wonderful characters with interconnected stories. At this point, individual and similarly plot info are nonetheless being stored underneath wraps, but, it’s miles obvious that Pascal, Mendelsohn, Ellis, and Champion will play every of those 4 contrasting characters.

Pascal received considerable prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell in HBO’s hit fantasy series, Game of Thrones. He parlayed his GOT fulfillment into taking on tasks greater focused on his characters, including gambling the titular protagonist in The Mandalorian. Pascal lately wrapped up filming for the first season of HBO’s upcoming drama The Last of Us which reunites him with fellow GOT alum, Bella Ramsey. While Pascal apparently has a choice for the small screen, he has a few great film credit together with Wonder Woman 1984, We Can Be Heroes, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and The Bubble.

Freaky Tales will reunite Mendelsohn’s with Fleck and Boden following Captain Marvel, which commissioned him into the MCU as Talos. The Emmy-prevailing actor is understood for his position in Netflix’s Bloodline. He recently finished filming for the function movies Misanthrope and The Marsh King’s Daughter, both presently in put up-production. Ellis these days established variety as one of the many adorable pilots in the blockbuster hit Top Gun: Maverick and is presently filming for the upcoming Dave Franco rom-com, Somebody I Used to Know. Newcomer Champion might be making a primary entrance into the Hollywood scene as Jake Sully and Neytiri’s son within the hotly predicted Avatar: The Way of Water.

In addition to the aforementioned cast, Freaky Tales can even function appearances from some Oakland natives. The film will be government produced by eOne’s Jillian Share, Jen Gorton, and Chanel Vidal. Producers include Jelani Johnson and Poppy Hanks from MACRO Film Studios. Other executive manufacturers consist of famous Oakland hip-hop legend, Too $hort, and his manager David Weintraub.

Freaky Tales is in its early manufacturing ranges, therefore the coming months will monitor extra information about the film which promises to provide an immersive revel in, and as always, live tuned at Collider for well timed updates.