Phoebe Dynevor is set to join Zac Efron in director Jody Hill’s latest feature film, Famous, a provocative Los Angeles-set thriller that explores the dark side of celebrity.

In Famous, Zac Efron (The Iron Claw, The Greatest Showman) will star in dual roles, playing both overzealous fan, Lance Dunkquist, and Hollywood heartthrob, James Jansen. The film is based on the acclaimed novel by bestselling author Blake Crouch and is adapted for the screen by Chad Hodge, who also adapted Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy into a series.

Lance Dunkquist has one asset that’s about to change his life – he has the face of a movie star. And not just any movie star – Lance is the spitting image of a Hollywood icon, James Jansen. Lance is about to travel to Los Angeles to make his dream come true. Lance is going to be famous, no matter what it takes…

A24 recently secured the domestic distribution rights to the film, reuniting with Efron after last year’s The Iron Claw, which grossed $45M worldwide and earned Efron some of the best reviews of his career for his emotional turn as wrestler, Kevin Von Erich. WME Independent and CAA Media Finance brokered the sale. Black Bear is handling international sales.

Famous is being produced by Sam Esmail and Chad Hamilton for Esmail Corp. and Michael Sagol for Caviar. Executive producers include Nick Krishnamurthy for Esmail Corp and Allison Hironaka for Caviar.

Dynevor rose to fame on Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton, where she played Daphne Basset for two seasons, the first season remaining one of the most viewed on the streamer with 113.3M global views. Dynevor is coming off the best reviews of her career for her role in Netflix’s thriller, Fair Play, which premiered at Sundance 2023 was quickly sold in a highly competitive sale to Netflix. The film earned her a BAFTA nomination in the EE Rising Star category. She can next be seen in Inheritance which is being released in 2025.

Dynevor is represented by WME, United Agents and Luber Roklin Entertainment.

Source – Deadline

Phoebe Dynevor had a little extra sparkle on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet — an engagement ring!

The Bridgerton star, 29, stepped out to the star-studded fashion spectacle on May 6 sporting a diamond ring. According to a report by E! News, Dynevor and fellow actor Cameron Fuller are engaged.

In April 2023, they were photographed holding hands during a PDA-filled stroll in London.

Phoebe Dynevor The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit, celebrating the opening of the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition, Arrivals, New York, USA

One image showed Fuller, 28 — who is the son of Hollywood producer Brad Fuller — with his arm wrapped around Dynevor.

While the two have kept their relationship pretty private, they did step out together publicly at Wimbledon in July 2023. They were seen laughing and chatting in the stands as they took in the tennis action.

Cameron has appeared on several shows over the years, including Insecure, Into the Dark and The Goldbergs. However, he is most known for his role on The Last Ship. His father Brad has worked on number of notable horror films, among them The Purge films, the A Quiet Place movies and 2010’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.

In addition to his acting career, Cameron runs a popular YouTube channel, Gregg and Cameron, alongside Wizards of Waverly Place alum Gregg Sulkin, where the duo does various challenges, shares vlogs and invites on celebrity guests.

In addition to showing off her new diamond sparkler on the Met Gala carpet, Dynevor celebrated a fashion milestone, becoming the first star to wear a Victoria Beckham look to the annual event. Befitting the night’s theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” the custom pink lace gown featured delicate, hand-cut flowers and a long train.

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DEADLINE – EXCLUSIVE: In a package that’s sure to heat up the marketplace right before the holiday weekend, sources tell Deadline that Logan Lerman and Phoebe Dynevor are attached to star in the romcom The Threesome for director Chad Hartigan. Ethan Ogilby penned the script, with King Richard production company Star Thrower producing.

Described as a high-concept, character-driven comedy in the vein of Knocked Up, the film explores the aftermath of one impulsive, seemingly innocuous decision. When a young man’s perennial crush leads him into an unexpected threesome, he thinks it’s his ultimate fantasy come true. But when the fantasy ends, all three are left with sobering real-world consequences, forcing them to take responsibility for their actions — even if it means compromising the lives they’ve always envisioned.

The package went out on the marketplace this week and already has drawn interest from a handful of suitors.

Lerman is coming off the Prime Video series Hunters, which is in production on its second season. He also is set to appear in the Sony action pic Bullet Train, opposite Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He is repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment.

Best known for her breakout role in Bridgerton, Dynevor most recently starred in the Sky Cinema pic The Colour Room and in a cameo appearance on Ten Percent. On the film side, she recently finished production on MRC Film’s Fair Play. She also is set to star in and exec produce the in-the-works Amazon limited series Exciting Times. She is repped by Gersh, Luber Roklin and United Agents.

Hartigan most recently directed Little Fish, a high-concept sci-fi love story starring Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell. It was selected to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival in the U.S. Narrative Competition before the festival was canceled. He also directed Morris from America. Hartigan is repped by CAA and Mosaic.

VARIETY – “Bridgerton” star Phoebe Dynevor will executive produce and star in a new feature film at Amazon Studios.

The breakout star of the Shonda Rhimes Netflix sensation has boarded “The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne,” a futuristic thriller from director James Bobin. Screenwriter Joe Tracz is adapting Jonathan Stroud’s book of the same name.

The film is set in a fragmented future England, where gunfights and monsters collide, and where the formidable outlaw Scarlett McCain fights daily against the odds. When she discovers a wrecked coach on a lonely road, there is only one survivor — the seemingly hapless youth Albert Browne. Soon, new and implacable enemies are on their heels and a relentless pursuit continues across the broken landscape of England. Scarlett must fight to uncover the secrets of Albert’s past — and come to terms with the implications of her own.

Temple Hill Entertainment, run by Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, is producing. The book was brought in by John Fischer and George Berman, who will oversee development for Temple Hill.

This marks Dynevor’s second teaming with tech giant Amazon, following the feature “Call My Agent.” She’s also an executive producer and star in “Exciting Times,” a limited series from Sundance sensation Cooper Raiff. Additional projects for Dynevor include “I Heart Murder” at Sony Pictures and “The Colour Room” from Sky Cinema.

Bobin most recently served as director and executive producer on “The Mysterious Benedict Society” and will next helm “Percy Jackson & The Olympians,” both at Disney Plus. He is best known for directing “The Muppets” with Amy Adams and Jason Segel, which spawned a sequel. His credits include “Da Ali G Show” and “Flight of the Conchords.”

Writer Tracz is currently adapting his Broadway musical “Be More Chill” with composer Joe Iconis and producers Berlanti/Schecter Films and 21Laps for 20th Century Studios. He is also creator and showrunner of Netflix’s “Dash & Lily” and is a writer on the “Percy Jackson” reboot at Disney Plus.

Stroud is the author of two internationally bestselling series: the award-winning “Bartimaeus Sequence” and the critically acclaimed “Lockwood & Co,” which is currently being adapted by Netflix.