Beef creator Lee Sung Jin is reportedly hoping to forged Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Charles Melton, and Cailee Spaeny within the second season of the Netflix and A24 sequence.
Per Deadline, Gyllenhaal, Hathaway, Melton, and Spaeny are all being eyed to play feuding {couples} within the second season of Netflix’s Beef. Whereas no deal is but in place, Melton and Spaeny would play one couple whereas Gyllenhaal and Hathaway would play the opposite.
Deadline additionally studies that “a restricted season’s price of scripts [for Beef Season 2] had been simply turned in or are about to be, and that Netflix and A24 are able to get the second season into manufacturing by late summer time or fall.”
Gyllenhaal and Hathaway each starred in 2005’s Brokeback Mountain alongside Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams. In addition they performed lead roles collectively in 2010’s Love & Different Medicine, which was directed by Edward Zwick.
Melton, in the meantime, is understood for taking part in Reggie Mantle in Riverdale and for starring in 2023’s Might December. Spaeny performed Priscilla Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla and can quickly be seen in Alex Garland’s Civil Battle and Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus.
What’s Netflix and A24’s Beef about?
The primary season of Beef premiered on Netflix in April 2023. It stars Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Joseph Lee, Younger Mazino, David Choe, and Patti Yasutake.
“It follows the aftermath of a street rage incident between two strangers,” the synopsis for Beef Season 1 reads. “Danny Cho, a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder, goes head-to-head with Amy Lau, a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life. The rising stakes of their feud unravel their lives and relationships on this darkly comedic and deeply shifting sequence.”
Lee Sung Jin has spoken about his need to show Beef, which debuted as a ten-episode restricted sequence, into an anthology present earlier than. He advised Deadline in January 2024, “We all the time pitched the season to patrons as an anthology sequence. There was all the time going to be new characters. Whether or not it stays restricted or turns as an anthology or we proceed current, that’s actually as much as Netflix. However no matter they determine, I’m undoubtedly prepared.”