Amazon MGM Studios has added Oscar nominee Demi Moore to David Weil’s culinary thriller Tyrant.
She joins Charlize Theron and Julia Garner in the first feature film from Hunters creator Weil. Script details are being kept under wraps, but Tyrant is billed as a high-stakes thriller set within New York City’s elite fine dining scene.
Moore is known for movies like Ghost, A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal and G.I. Jane. More recently, she starred in The Substance, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination. Moore will next appear in Boots Riley’s I Love Boosters, which bowed at the SXSW Festival. She can also be seen on the small screen in the hit Paramount+ series Landman.
Weil was also behind the seven-part sci-fi anthology series Solo, each episode of which features just one actor — among them Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, Uzo Aduba and Anthony Mackie. Weil also defended his Amazon Prime series Hunters following criticism by the Auschwitz Memorial over its fictional depictions of the Holocaust.
The Picture Company partners Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona will produce Tyrant along with Theron and her Secret Menu partners Beth Kono & A.J. Dix. Weil will also produce with producing partner Natalie Laine Williams. Stan Wlodkowski will serve as executive producer on the film.
Tyrant will shoot in Los Angeles, with production to start in late April or early May. Weil wrote the screenplay, which is based on a story he wrote with Cody Behan.
Moore is represented by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.