English actress Florence Pugh is thriving in Hollywood at the moment, having lent her talents to successful and popular movies like 2019’s Midsommar and Little Women, 2021’s Black Widow, 2022’s Don’t Worry Darling and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and 2023’s Oppenheimer.
The talented and beautiful star is going from strength to strength, and her efforts have resulted in nominations for two BAFTAs and an Academy Award – and it’s only a matter of time before she wins a prestigious gong of that nature.
Her future looks incredibly bright, with four intriguing movies lined up, and movie audiences worldwide should be excited about them all.
Dune: Part Two
2021’s Dune wowed audiences and critics worldwide and received a whopping 10 Academy Award nominations, six of which it won. The first installment in a two-part adaptation of the eponymous 1965 novel tells the story of a war for the dangerous and uninviting desert planet Arrakis. Its hotly-anticipated sequel, Dune: Part Two, has completed filming and will hit theaters in March 2024.
Florence Pugh will play Princess Irulan, the character played by Virginia Madsen in the 1984 adaptation of the novel. She’ll perform her role alongside an astonishing ensemble cast, including Timothée Chalamet Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, and Austin Butler. Directed by a returning Denis Villeneuve, Dune: Part Two will be a spectacular blockbuster experience guaranteed to impact the awards season significantly. It will undoubtedly be one of the best and most successful titles of 2024.
Thunderbolts
To date, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova has appeared in two Marvel Cinematic Universe projects: 2021’s Black Widow and three episodes of the Disney+ Hawkeye miniseries later that year. She’s performed excellently as the character and gained plaudits for her action prowess, so it will be exciting to see her again.
That will happen in 2025’s Thunderbolts, which is currently filming. Based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name, it will see a group of supervillains and antiheroes recruited to go on a mission for the government. As well as Pugh’s Belova, the team will include Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes, Wyatt Russell’s John Walker, Hannah John-Kamen’s Ghost, David Harbour’s Red Guardian, and Olga Kurylenko’s Taskmaster. Jake Schreier, director of 2012’s brilliant sci-fi comedy-drama Robot & Frank, will oversee the project, making for another exciting and star-studded MCU project.
We Live In Time
Currently in the post-production stage, the rom-com We Live in Time is an upcoming movie starring Pugh alongside The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield. Benedict Cumberbatch’s London-based production company SunnyMarch is one of the forces behind this British offering, and the supporting cast includes Adam James and Marama Corlett. John Crowley, who directed the terrific 2015 romantic period drama Brooklyn, will direct it. The release date isn’t known.
It’s said to be a “funny, deeply moving and immersive love story,” but little is known about the plot. What is known is that Pugh shaved her head as part of her character’s journey in the film, and, at some point, her character gets pregnant. Her character’s name is Almut, and Garfield will play her love interest, Tobias. If the two stars have as much chemistry as is expected, We Live in Time has the potential to be a classic of its genre.
The Pack
The Pack is a film in the pre-production stage that will follow a team of documentarians braving the harsh and remote wilderness of Alaska in their attempts to prevent a nearly extinct species of wolves from dying out completely. Although they survive their freezing experience, it’s a prestigious awards ceremony after the event when tensions flair, threatening to undo their good work and cause a potentially irreparable rift among the group.
Alexander Skarsgård will direct the movie, and Pugh will star in it, reuniting the pair after they previously worked together in the AMC series The Little Drummer Girl. The Pack will be Skarsgård’s directorial debut, and it will be interesting to see how he manages the project. Though the film has no official release date, it will have thriller, action, and horror elements, which sounds intriguing.
