Director Craig Gillespie and Hollywood’s current darling Glen Powell will team up for Homewreckers, a sci‑fi erotic thriller produced by Legendary.
Fresh off the DCU, where his Supergirl project just drew a tepid reception from audiences, Craig Gillespie isn’t moping and is already looking ahead. Used to navigating between genres with I, Tonya, the pop sensation Cruella and the raunchy miniseries Pam & Tommy, the Australian filmmaker is preparing to take another turn. He plans to plant his next cameras squarely in pure hard sci‑fi for a project that promises to be particularly intriguing.
To bring this new venture to life, Gillespie has enlisted Glen Powell, the current darling of Hollywood blockbusters. The actor with the ultra-bright smile is stacking up major projects, from Top Gun: Maverick to Twisters, including the remake of Running Man and the mysterious The Great Beyond by J.J. Abrams alongside Jenna Ortega. The two men are teaming up today to bring Homewreckers to life.
Glen Powell in a cyberpunk family drama
Deadline has an exclusive: Homewreckers will be overseen directly by Legendary Pictures, which has set its sights on a manuscript by Neil M. Paik. A rarity in Hollywood to note: the book hasn’t even been published yet, and the author has already been hired to pen the screenplay adaptation himself. The studio seems to have blind faith in this debut novel, sensing the immediate cinematic potential of a pitch that clearly looks solid.
On paper, Homewreckers is described as an erotic thriller with a sci‑fi twist and a disturbing atmosphere. The opening notes of intent describe a head‑on collision between the sultry, paranoid, and sexually charged vibe of Paul Verhoeven and Adrian Lyne’s major classics (Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction) and Alex Garland’s tech‑centric concepts (Ex Machina). Powell’s role has yet to be defined.
Rappelons que le terme « homewrecker » désigne littéralement un ou une « briseuse de ménage », à savoir l’élément perturbateur qui vient faire exploser un couple de l’intérieur. Sauf qu’avec sa surcouche de science-fiction, le film pourrait bien revisiter l’idée de triangle amoureux toxique sous un angle radicalement plus flippant, où l’intrus pourrait bien être une intelligence artificielle ou une entité synthétique.
Qui plus est, ici, Homewreckers est au pluriel, il pourrait donc y avoir plus d’un ou une fouteur/fouteuse de bordel. Un cocktail chaud-froid qui nous évoque aussi « l’incel horror » d’un Obsession. À l’heure actuelle, aucun autre nom n’a filtré pour entourer Glen Powell, et la production se garde bien de fixer la moindre date de sortie officielle pour Homewreckers dans les calendriers de Legendary.
