Olivia Wilde has joined Pedro Pascal and David Harbour in Behemoth!, a drama Tony Gilroy is directing for Searchlight Pictures.
Eva Victor is also on the call sheet for the feature that begins shooting in Los Angeles later this week.
The project is the first major work from Gilroy since he wrapped up all his commitments to season two of Andor, which ended up earning him an Emmy Award nomination for best series. Gilroy wrote the script for Behemoth! and is producing with Sanne Wohlenberg and John Gilroy, both of whom he worked with on Andor.
While Searchlight has not put out an official logline for the feature, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter the story is described as a love letter to the music of the movies and the people who make it. It tells of a musician, to be played by Pascal, from a family of musicians who returns to Los Angeles.
Wilde will play the man’s former lover.
Senionr vp of production Rayne Roberts and creative executive Cameron Chidsey are overseeing for Searchlight Pictures, reporting to heads of production and development DanTram Nguyen and Katie Goodson-Thomas.
Wilde next has The Invite, a relationship drama which she directed and in which she also stars opposite Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton. Earlier this year, she appeared in Rogen’s Apple TV+ series The Studio. She last appeared on the big screen in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon and the thriller Don’t Worry Darling, which she also directed.
Wilde is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Johnson Shapiro.
