Nicholas Galitzine and Invoice Skarsgard are to star within the World Conflict II film ‘Mosquito Bowl’.
The 30-year-old actor and the ‘Nosferatu’ star, 34, have signed on to guide director Peter Berg’s upcoming movie for Netflix, Deadline reviews.
Based mostly on writer Buzz Bissinger’s 2022 novel ‘The Mosquito Bowl: A Sport of Life and Dying in World Conflict II’, the image will happen within the aftermath of the assault on Pearl Harbor and observe 4 of the nation’s prime school soccer stars who put their athletic careers on maintain to affix the U.S. Marine Corps.
As they practice for the gruelling invasion of Okinawa, they participate in a legendary soccer sport – one which brings collectively a number of the best gamers of the period, and for a lot of, serves as their closing time on the sector.
Berg wrote the screenplay for ‘Mosquito Bowl’ with Mark L. Smith, and also will function producer underneath the Movie 44 banner alongside Think about Leisure’s Brian Grazer and Alex Gayner.
In the meantime, Ezra Emanuel will function government producer.
Galitzine is presently engaged on the ‘Masters of the Universe’ live-action film for Amazon MGM Studios and Mattel Movies – which can be based mostly on the long-lasting Mattel toy line and cartoon sequence.
The actor is taking part in the hero He-Man within the flick, and beforehand revealed he had been “consuming about 4,000 energy a day” to get into the fitting form for the function.
He advised W Journal: “No strain, I simply need to embody the strongest man within the universe. There’s been a number of consuming and weightlifting, a number of stunts.
“I’m consuming about 4,000 energy a day, however the quantity of bodily work I’m doing, you find yourself hungry on the finish of the day, which is kind of shocking. That is the enjoyable half.”
Even so, ’The Thought of You’ star conceded he was dreading “the reducing part”, wherein he can be “starved and so impolite to everybody”.
He stated: “I’ll ultimately go into what’s referred to as the reducing part, the place I’m going to be starved and so impolite to everybody. I can solely apologize for the particular person I’m going to turn out to be in a couple of months’ time.”
Except for Galitzine, ‘Masters of the Universe’ will star Jared Leto as Skeletor, Idris Elba as Man-At-Arms, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson as Goat Man.
Different forged members embody Camila Mendes as Teela, Sam C. Wilson as Lure Jaw, and Kojo Attah as Tri-Klops.
Whereas plot particulars in regards to the ‘Masters of the Universe’ film are being stored underneath wraps, the movie will probably observe He-Man as he battles the dreaded Skeletor to guard the planet Eternia and guard the secrets and techniques of Citadel Grayskull.
The movie – which is slated to hit cinemas in June 2026 – is being helmed by ‘Bumblebee’ director Travis Knight, who’s working from a script written by ‘Lacking Hyperlink’ scribe Chris Butler.
