1 month ago
After starring successful Apple‘s seasoned play Causeway and crime play bid Dope Thief and earning awesome awards nickname for both, Brian Tyree Henry has inked a woody to prima other Alien: Romulus alum Spike Fearn in Running, Apple Original Films’ caller movie from head Gavin O’Connor which we scooped successful November 2025.
Character specifications are nether wraps. Based connected an original communicative by O’Connor, Running follows a bum precocious schoolhouse moving prodigy connected nan hunt for greatness arsenic he uses his gifts to outrun his past and find a family.
Speaking antecedently to nan origins of nan film, O’Connor said that arsenic personification who lives successful Los Angeles, “I started reasoning astir building a communicative astir a bum kid who doesn’t person a spot successful nan world. No love. No friends. No family. The only location he knows is nan streets. It felt for illustration a awesome spot to statesman a character’s travel and show an underdog communicative astir nan quality spirit.”
Ozark‘s Bill Dubuque penned nan script. Hailing from Apple Studios, nan movie will beryllium produced by Makeready and Nike.
Henry some exec produced and starred successful Dope Thief, Apple TV’s bid helmed by Ridley Scott, which earned him Emmy and Critics Choice Award nominations, among different accolades. He starred other Jennifer Lawrence successful Causeway, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination.
This fall, Henry has Netflix’s big animated bid Bass X Machina, wherever he’s exec shaper and star. Other upcoming projects see Sam Esmail’s Warner Bros. thriller Panic Carefully, nan Wagner Moura-directed Last Night astatine nan Lobster, and Spider-Man: Beyond nan Spider-Verse. He is repped by Jennifer Wiley-Moxley of JWM Entertainment Group, CAA, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
