
Shia LaBeouf, Chris Pine, and Olivia Wilde are set to join is my idol and allowed me to be a part of this fecking incredible cast.

Instead of a Swedish commune, however, she’ll be visiting the California desert in the ’50s. According to Deadline, the movie will be set in an isolated, seemingly utopian community - not exactly a foreign concept to Pugh, who is coming off a star turn in Midsommar. Below, a timeline of events as audiences became more and more worried about Don’t Worry, Darling, from Wilde’s alleged on-set romance with Styles to a leaked video of her asking LaBeouf if he’d come back if Pugh “really commits.”Īpril 24, 2020: Florence Pugh is announced as the lead housewife of Don’t Worry Darling. Wilde marketed Don’t Worry Darling as a rare showcase of “female pleasure” and seemed to frame the production itself as an empowering workplace - one where her “no assholes” rule could cause LaBeouf’s exit in order to protect Pugh. In this community, women are expected to stay inside while men go work on a mysterious project helmed by a suspicious-looking Chris Pine. Harry Styles replaced Shia LaBeouf as Alice’s husband, Jack, while Wilde stars as another local housewife, Bunny. Out in theaters on September 23, Don’t Worry Darling stars Florence Pugh as Alice, a 1950s housewife who begins questioning her life in an isolated California desert town called Victory. At the Venice Film Festival this week, the cast’s every interaction was picked apart for confirmation of tension. Yet over the past three years, the movie has been plagued by reports of alleged behind-the-scenes drama.

The movie, Olivia Wilde’s next feature directorial project after Booksmart, made a first impression so appealing that 18 studios competed to buy it in 2019, including winner New Line Cinema. Ironically, the conversations about the sci-fi thriller seem to have followed a similar progression. Photos: Getty Imagesĭon’t Worry Darling tells the story of an idyllic, seemingly perfect community that slowly reveals a sinister underbelly. “You got the cinema / I bring the pop to the cinema.” Photo-Illustration: Vulture.
