Pedro Pascal has been tipped to take over the lead role in director Todd Haynes stalled project De Noche.

Last year director Todd Haynes plans to film a gay romance stalled when leading man Joaquin Phoenix pulled out the project just days before they were due to start filming.

Now the movie seems to be back on track with Pedro Pascal tipped to be taking over the lead role. It would see him starring opposite Danny Ramirez in a story about a corrupt cop and his younger lover as they flee 1930s Los Angeles for Mexico.

Pascal is one of the busiest actors in the business at the moment, starring in the apocalyptic series The Last Of Us, and playing Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four in the Marvel universe. Plus he’s about to hit the big screen in the next installment of Star Wars: The Mandalorian – but we suspect that doesn’t involve too many days on set because his voice is needed more than his body.

Todd Haynes made his film debut in 1991 with Poison, part of the New Queer Cinema movement it comprised three separate stories, partially inspired by the novels of Jean Genet.

Haynes would go on to make Safe (1995) Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far From Heaven (2002), I’m Not There (2007), Carol (2015), Wonderstruck (2017) and Dark Waters (2019). In 2001 he directed the TV miniseries Mildred Pierce, and followed that up with the feature film May December in 2023.