Charli XCX collaboration with Takashi Miike takes shape
The previously announced collaboration between coveted horror filmmaker Takashi Miike and Charli XCX has enjoyed major updates, such as cast, plot, and shooting locations.
In April last year, it was revealed that the pair were set to collaborate for the second film under the pop star’s new production company, Studio365. The first, The Moment, is a mockumentary based on the idea of “killing” the global phenomenon Brat summer, and is set for a UK cinema release at the end of the month.
It has now been confirmed that the ‘Sympathy is a Knife’ singer will be joined by House of the Dragon breakout star, Milly Alcock, in the collaboration with Miike. Additionally, Tokyo Vice’s Sho Kasamatsu and Ride or Die’s Kiko Mizuhara are set to join the cast.
Though the film is still called Untitled Kyoto Project, further details about the plot have finally been revealed: as per Variety, three friends who meet up in the Japanese city of Kyoto only to see their holiday turn into a nightmare as Charli’s character is possessed by a tortured spirit.
Wasting no time, the team is expected to begin production later this month in Japan. Famously, Miike is a swift director, so the film has the potential to be a late 2026 release.
Ross Evans, whose script How to Save a Marriage is being developed for Sony with Robert Pattinson helping in the producer role, has penned the screenplay.
After making her big-screen acting debut in Julia Jackman’s period fantasy, 100 Nights of Hero, Charli is also set to star in Pete Ohs and Jeremy O. Harris’ Erupcja and Daniel Goldhaber’s horror remake Faces of Death.
Charli will also star alongside Olivia Wilde and Cooper Hoffman in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, as well as Romain Gavras’ adventure comedy Sacrifice.
Adding another to the list, she will star in Cathy Yan’s thriller The Gallerist, which also stars Natalie Portman, Jenna Ortega, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and more, and premiered atthe Sundance Festival last month.
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