Tall Australian “Euphoria” breakout star Jacob Elordi is reportedly being considered to star in Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming HBO TV series adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ fictionalized memoir “The Shards”.
Daniel Richtman (via World of Reel) reports that Elordi met with Guadagnino for lunch while they were recently in Venice for the film festival and the outlets allege a conversation about a potential role in the HBO project came up.
With the SAG-AFTRA strike on, there’s obviously no formal casting talk of any kind at this point and no indications as to when the production could get going.
The just-released first novel in thirteen years from “American Psycho” and “Rules of Attraction” author Ellis, the story follows seventeen-year-old Bret – a nihilistic, 17-year-old, bisexual San Fernando Valley trust-fund senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school in 1981.
It’s there a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle.
Bret’s obsession is equaled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer.
The series is said to consist of three seasons made up of ten episodes each, with Ellis to write every single episode. Guadagnino directed fils such as “Call Me by Your Name,” “Suspiria” and “Bones and All” and previously worked with HBO on the limited series “We Are Who We Are”.
Should the Australian actor sign on, it would mark his latest HBO work following “Euphoria”. He’s about to be seen on the big screen too in Emerald Fennell’s psychological thriller “Saltburn” and Sofia Coppola’s biopic “Priscilla”.
