Charli XCX, Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine Cast in Queer Folktale Adaptation
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Folklore enthusiasts take note: Isabel Greenberg’s acclaimed graphic novel The One Hundred Nights of Hero — about two women who are secretly in love — is headed for the silver screen, with a star-studded cast including Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, and Charli XCX.
Hero, originally a sequel to Greenberg’s debut title The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, is inspired by the classic Arabic folktales of One Thousand and One Nights. In director Julia Jackman’s adaptation, Galitzine (Red, White & Royal Blue) plays Manfred, a houseguest visiting an isolated castle, inhabited by a neglected bride named Cherry (Maika Monroe), her husband Jerome, and their maid Hero (Corrin), according to a Thursday report on Deadline.
“Very excited to get back to my indie roots and for you to meet our Hero and Cherry,” Galitzine wrote on Instagram earlier this week, adding, “oh and don’t believe everything you read. Manfred’s a great guy.”
Spoiler alert: Manfred is not, in fact, particularly nice. 100 Nights of Hero centers on Hero and Cherry as they attempt to hold off Manfred, who’s made a bet with Jerome that he will sleep with Cherry within 100 nights. The two women are lovers, however, and concoct a Scheherazade-like scheme to keep Manfred at bay with stories drawn from legend — mostly about women overcoming peril and patriarchy.
It’s still unclear what role Charli XCX will play in the film, and the Grammy-nominated pop star isn’t spilling the beans — but then again, she hasn’t had much time to, after just announcing her Brat remix album earlier this week. It won’t be Charli’s first rodeo, at least: the singer is already slated to appear in director Daniel Goldhaber’s remake of cult-classic horror film Faces of Death, and will also star opposite Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki’s forthcoming thriller I Want Your Sex.
Corrin will play the diabolical Cassandra Nova in the final installment of the ‘*Deadpool*’ trilogy.
Between Charli, who seems to be transitioning from “brat summer” to “film star fall,” and Corrin, who’s doing projects as varied as Deadpool and Wolverine and the “tortured artist” short film Hermit, One Hundred Nights of Hero already looks to be a uniquely wild moviegoing experience full of literally life-threatening sapphic yearning. Impress your friends by reading Greenberg’s graphic novels first so you can identify everything Jackman changes in her adaptation! We hear that’s what the coolest kids are doing.
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