Harry Styles has come a long way since his X-Factor auditions to be in boyband One Direction in 2010 . The 28-year-old has gone from strength to strength since launching a solo music career in 2017.
Fans are now eagerly awaiting Harry Styles' new films as he is set to take on the leading role in, not one, but two movies called Don't Worry Darling and My Policeman. Both are released in the autumn, within a month of each other, and are co-incidentally both set in the 1950s.
In 2017, he branched out into acting and won a small part as a British soldier in war film Dunkirk. In an article by AP News, director Christopher Nolan stated that he was largely unaware of Styles' fame but cast him over thousands of other young men because he "fit the part wonderfully".
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Don't Worry Darling
Release date: September 22 - UK cinemas
Directed by Harry Styles' partner, Olivia Wilde (38), the actress turned director is on to her second film 'Don't Worry Darling'. While unveiling the first set of footage at CinemaCon in April 2022, Wilde cited that she was inspired by The Trueman Show, Matrix and Inception and that it was "a love letter to movies that push the boundaries of imagination."
Cast and creators:
Director: Olivia Wilde
Screenwriter: Katie Silberman
Composer: John Powell
Star: Florence Pugh - Alice Chambers
Star: Harry Styles - Jack Chambers
Olivia Wilde - Bunny
Chris Pine- Frank
Gemma Chan - Shelley
Kiki Layne - Margaret
Nick Kroll - Bill
Plot:
The details of the plot have largely been kept under wraps however we can offer a brief outline to what is believed to be a psychological thriller. Set in an experimental utopian community, characters live isolated in the 1950s Californian desert.
Inside the town known as Victory, Alice Chambers (Florence Pugh) lives an idyllic lifestyle with husband Jack Chambers (Harry Styles). The "Vanity project", created by upper-class clientele, is paid for by Jack's mysterious company and is hailed as changing the world.
The foundations of the project are built upon an agreement that the females stay at home. Jack is off to work every day and Alice begins to question the nature of her husband's work.
Curiosity begins to get the better of her causing cracks to form in their marriage, utopian lifestyle and community as her investigation intensifies.
Trailer:
The are two trailers that have gone out for Don't Worry Darling with the first being released on Monday, May 2 and the second full-length trailer on July 21. Set from the perspective of Alice, we see through her eyes the world in which she lives.
For both Don't Worry Darling trailers, at first glance, the film may appear to be a rom-com (romantic comedy) with Alice and Jack living a happy loved-up lifestyle. As both trailers go on the tension builds however and we learn that things aren't quite right.
Despite the fact we hear a voice telling us all the town's residents are safe, we are left in no doubt that there are sinister goings-on within the Vanity Project.
Both trailers can be viewed here and here.
How did Harry Styles meet Olivia Wilde?
Styles met Wilde on the set of Don't Worry Darling in September 2020 and began a relationship. The pair came out publicly in January 2021 when they attended a wedding together.
Director Olivia Wilde plays a part in the film herself which is that of Alice's best friend Bunny.
My Policeman
Release date: Limited release in cinemas on October 21 with streaming on Prime Video on November 4, 2022.
Cast and creators:
Romantic drama.
Director: Michael Grandage
Composer: Steven Price
Writer: Bethen Roberts (2012 novel of the same name)
Producer: Robbie Rogers
Screenplay: Ron Nyswaner
Harry Styles - Tom Burgess
Linus Roache - Older version of Tom
Emma Corrin - Marion Taylor
Gina Mckee - Older version of Marion Taylor
David Dawson - Patrick Hazlewood
Rupert Everett - Older version of Patrick
Plot:
My Policeman is based on the 2012 novel of the same name and tells the heartbreaking story of a love triangle between three characters. Policeman Tom (Harry Styles) is married to school teacher Marion but falls in love with a man named Patrick (David Dawson) after they meet at a museum.
Set in 1950s Brighton when homophobia was rampant, it is safer for Tom to keep his love a secret therefore both Marion and Patrick share the policeman. This is until one of them breaks the silence potentially ruining all three lives.
The film adaptation includes the older versions of Tom and Patrick set in the 1990s in which they hope to repair the damage of the past. Patrick has had a stroke and moved into the home of Tom and Marion who is caring for him. "My Policeman" is how Marion refers to her husband Tom.
Trailer:
A teaser trailer has dropped for My Policeman on June 15 which predominantly shows the characters of Tom and Patrick. Discussing a painting of a stormy sea in the museum where they met, the pair can be heard discussing the power of the ocean and how its waves can engulf its victims if they don't "go with the flow."
Alluding to the concepts of repression and passion, the oceanic scenes are interspersed with brief scenes of Marion in her day-to-day life with Tom.
The trailer sets the scene for much drama, conflict and passion to come.
Is Harry Style's My Policeman based on a true story?
Though not a true story, the book is based on real events. Writer Roberts based it on the real-life romance of writer EM Foster and policeman Robert Buckingham. An agreement was had between the couple and Foster's wife to keep the triangle a secret with her becoming a nursemaid to Foster later in life.
Openly gay ex-Major League Soccer star Robbie Rogers fought to get the movie version financed over a period of eight years. The now producer said the novel was like his "coming out book" in an interview with Vanity Fair.
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