‘The Gallerist’: Daniel Brühl, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Charli XCX Join Director Cathy Yan’s New Feature!!

Cathy Yan‘s The Gallerist is mounting an all-star exhibition. Daniel Brühl, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and music superstar Charli XCX are set to join Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman in the upcoming black comedy. Deadline reports that the film is set to begin shooting at the end of the month.

The blackly comedic film concerns a desperate gallerist who attempts to sell a dead body at the world-renowned Art Basel Miami art fair. The cast’s roles are being kept under wraps for now; in addition to Ortega, Portman, Brühl, Zeta-Jones, and XCX, it will also feature Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us), Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) and recent Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers). It will be Yan‘s first film since 2020’s DC Comics adaptation Birds of Prey; although it was a commercial disappointment, it was well-reviewed by critics.

What Can the Stars of ‘The Gallerist’ Be Seen In Next?

Hot off the heels of the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Ortega has just wrapped the second season of Wednesday, and is set to star in Death of a Unicorn with Paul Rudd, Klara and the Sun with Amy Adams, and Hurry Up Tomorrow with The Weeknd. Portman will star alongside John Krasinski in the Guy Ritchie film Fountain of Youth, and will lend her voice to the animated Roald Dahl adaptation The Twits. Brühl currently stars on the satirical HBO series The Franchise, and is also set to star in The Collaboration as art collector Bruno Bischofberger. Zeta-Jones currently plays Ortega’s mother on Wednesday, and recently starred in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History. Following her “Brat Summer,” XCX has a number of film projects in the works, including Erupcja, Faces of Death, and I Want Your Sex. Brown will star in the Hulu series Washington Black and Paradise, and is set to star alongside Henry Cavill in the live-action anime adaptation Voltron. Galifianakis recently played himself on the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building, and will lend his voice to Disney‘s live-action Lilo and Stitch. Randolph also starred on Only Murders in the Building, and will be featured in Michel Gondry‘s Golden, Joe Carnahan‘s Shadow Force, Bride Hard with Rebel Wilson, and the supernatural rom-com Eternity.

In addition to directing, Yan is also co-writing the script with James Pedersen (High Heat). The film will be produced by Ash Sarohia and Jonathan King from Concordia Studio; Sophie Mas and Portman from MountainA; Tom McCarthy and Rae Baron from Slow Pony; and Zola Elgart Glassman.