Pedro Pascal Circling Tony Gilroy Movie Behemoth

If you open up a dictionary and turn to the page containing the word ‘ubiquitous’, then rumour has it you’ll actually just find a picture of Pedro Pascal smiling back at you. By anyone’s standards, the Chilean-American actor has had quite the 2025, impressing on screens both gigantic and tiny with star turns in The Last Of Us Season 2, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Materialists, and — imminently — Ari Aster’s Eddington. And, according to Deadline, Pascal has no plan to pump the brakes anytime soon, as the in-demand actor is now in talks to lead Tony Gilroy’s next movie, Behemoth! (Editor’s note: his exclamation mark, not ours.)

With Tony Gilroy having enjoyed his own pretty remarkable year thanks to the release of his critically acclaimed — and several-time 2025 Emmy Awards nominated — Andor Season 2, all eyes have been on the veteran filmmaker’s next move. And while precious little is known about the secretive plot of Gilroy’s Searchlight Pictures bound Behemoth!, we do intriguingly know that the film reportedly centres around a cellist — and that, per Gilroy’s own description to Deadline in an interview back in May, “It’s about movie music, the people who make it.” Presumably then, Pascal would be playing said cellist, taking over from fellow Latino Star Wars alum Oscar Isaac, who Gilroy had originally tapped for the lead.

With Eddington due out in just a couple of weeks, The Mandalorian & Grogu‘s 22 May, 2026 release date inching ever closer, and the tiny matter of Avengers: Doomsday to contend with for Marvel Studios’ up-to-date Mister Fantastic, we can expect to be seeing plenty more Pedro over the next 12 months. And with shooting on Behemoth! scheduled to get underway later this year in Los Angeles, knowing Gilroy’s no-fuss, no-muss approach to moviemaking we wouldn’t be surprised if Behemoth! finds itself on the Pascal 2026 slate sooner rather than later. This is the way!