Dylan O'Brien joins erotic Bulls
- Dylan O’Brien has joined James Morosini’s erotic thriller *Bulls*, starring opposite Lewis Pullman and Kaia Gerber as the project heads to Cannes sales. - The setup is pretty specific: O’Brien plays Danny, whose self-reinvention trip implodes after he hooks up with Gerber’s married character, Ava. - It matters because *Bulls* is being packaged as a market title now — with QC financing and Manifest handling international sales.
Erotic thriller is the lane here — and the news is that *Bulls* just landed a recognizable young cast. Dylan O’Brien, Lewis Pullman, and Kaia Gerber are attached to star in James Morosini’s new film as the project heads into the Cannes market. That matters because this is the stage where a movie stops being just a script with buzz and starts trying to become an actual global saleable package. ### What is *Bulls*? It’s an erotic thriller from writer-director James Morosini, the filmmaker behind *I Love My Dad*. The project is being launched for buyers at Cannes by Manifest Pictures, while QC Entertainment is financing and producing alongside Roth/Kirschenbaum Films. In plain English — the movie is far enough along creatively to announce stars, but it’s also being positioned as a hot market title that can attract international distributors. (au.lifestyle.yahoo.com) ### Who is playing whom? The cleanest character detail out there comes from IMDb’s listing: O’Brien is set to play Danny, Pullman plays Marco, and Gerber plays Ava. Trade writeups and follow-on coverage line up with that, and they frame Ava as the married woman at the center of the story’s affair-and-fallout setup. That gives you the triangle immediately — Danny, Ava, and Ava’s husband Marco. (au.lifestyle.yahoo.com) ### What’s the story hook? The premise is basically temptation-as-disaster. Danny goes to a hedonistic island resort trying to change his life, then things blow up after he gets involved with a married woman. From there the movie moves into sex, power, and psychological games — which is exactly the kind of sleek, adult-skewing pitch Cannes buyers tend to understand fast. ### Why is the casting the real news? (imdb.com) Because the package now has three actors with very different kinds of heat. O’Brien brings a loyal fan base and a long runway from franchise work into darker material. Pullman is coming off a visibility jump tied to *Thunderbolts\**. Gerber has been building an acting résumé beyond modeling, with credits like *Bottoms*. Put together, that gives *Bulls* a mix of indie credibility, internet attention, and commercial recognizability. (podbean.com) ### Why Cannes matters here? Cannes isn’t just premieres and red carpets — it’s also a giant sales floor. Manifest Pictures said it is launching international sales on *Bulls* at the market, which means the cast announcement is doing business work, not just publicity work. The point is to make buyers feel the movie is real, castable, and worth committing money to before cameras roll or before a release plan is locked. (au.lifestyle.yahoo.com) ### Who is behind the movie? Manifest is the newer company in the mix, led by Yvette Zhuang and Zach Glueck, and *Bulls* is one of the projects it’s taking into Cannes. QC Entertainment is the more established production-financing name here — the company has credits including *Get Out* and *Anyone But You*, which helps signal the kind of commercial-arthouse middle zone this project wants to occupy. (screendaily.com) ### So what should you take from this? This isn’t a trailer-drop story. It’s a packaging story. *Bulls* now looks like a real movie in motion — director, financiers, sales plan, and a cast that gives the pitch some voltage. If the Cannes launch goes well, the next step is simple: more financing, distribution deals, and eventually a production timeline. (au.lifestyle.yahoo.com)
