We’re just going to manifest in the world that Wagner Moura and Kristen Stewart must’ve met at our IndieWire Honors ceremony last year, and now they’re starring in a movie together.
In his first role since being Oscar-nominated for “The Secret Agent,” Moura will star in “Flesh of the Gods,” which is the next film from “Mandy” director Panos Cosmatos. Back when the package was announced in 2024, Stewart was attached to star alongside Oscar Isaac, but Moura will now slip into the Isaac role, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire.
A24 has also picked up the U.S. distribution rights to “Flesh of the Gods,” which is described as a vampire thriller written by Andrew Kevin Walker (“Se7en”) based on a story by Walker and Cosmatos.
The idea back in 2024 was that Stewart and then Isaac would play a wealthy married couple who hit up a bunch of raves in ’80s Los Angeles, only to meet a mysterious woman who seduces them into a “glamorous, surrealistic world of hedonism, thrills, and violence.” Cosmatos at the time described it as, much like Los Angeles itself, a film that “inhabits the liminal realm between fantasy and nightmare…Both propulsive and hypnotic, ‘Flesh’ will take you on a hot rod joy ride deep into the glittering heart of hell.”
Sounds like our kind of movie. And the irony isn’t lost on us that this film represents Stewart’s return to vampire movies since breaking out with “Twilight.”
Adam McKay and Betsy Koch are producing the film for McKay’s HyperObject Industryies banner, and Jonas Katzenstein and Maximillian Leo are producing for augenschein Filmproduktion. Stewart is also producing with Maggie McLean for Nevermind Pictures.
XYZ serves as executive producers and as foreign sales agents on the film.
Moura won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama and won the Best Actor prize at last year’s Cannes for his work in “The Secret Agent.” This is also a reunion with A24 after he starred in the studio’s “Civil War” in 2024.
Moura is represented by WME, imPRint, and Johnson, Shapiro, Slewett & Kole.
Deadline first reported the news.
