Mamoudou Athie Joins Zendaya And Robert Pattinson In ‘The Drama’ For A24

EXCLUSIVE: Mamoudou Athie is in final talks to join the ensemble of A24 and Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, with Zendaya and Robert Pattinson on board to star. Borgli will direct from a script he wrote. Alana Haim is also in talks to join the cast.

Project details are under wraps, but rumors suggest it’s about a romance that takes an unexpected turn before a couple’s big day.

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Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen and Tyler Campellone will produce under their Square Peg banner.

This marks another film collaboration between Square Peg and A24 that previously resulted in Hereditary, Midsommar, Dream Scenario as well as upcoming films Death of a Unicorn starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega and Eddington starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone.

Athie is coming off Yorgos Lanthimos’ most recent drama Kinds of Kindness, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and starred Stone, Jesse Plemons and Margaret Qualley. His other recent credits include voicing a role in the Pixar movie Elemental as well as the Netflix pic Uncorked.

He is repped by WME and Sugar23.

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