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After walking over 300 miles across a dystopian America in The Long Walk, you could've forgiven co-stars Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson for perhaps wanting a little break from one another — even if the duo did become bezzie mates while shooting Francis Lawrence's gruelling Stephen King adaptation. Instead, it looks like the duo are running not walking towards another exciting team-up. According to Deadline, the rising stars are in talks to lead upcoming A24 road movie The Chaperones.
Directed by India Donaldson, whose Lily Collins led feature filmmaking debut Good One lit up Cannes and Sundance last year, The Chaperones is, per Deadline's description, "set days after Christmas, where three slacker friends are hired to transport a troubled teen across the country." Admittedly, it's not a lot to go on, and the brief synopsis raises a few big questions, like are Jonsson and Hoffman two of the three slackers? Is one of them playing the troubled teen? And has the lede — that we may sort of actually be getting our first A24 Christmas movie — been buried here? But none of that really matters: given the electric chemistry Hoffman and Jonsson share in The Long Walk, and how much heart and soul they bring to such unremittingly bleak material there, just hearing the two actors' names in the same sentence is enough to have us on board with Donaldson's latest.
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Set to mark the feature debut of screenwriter Sebastian Black, The Chaperones joins an increasingly busy pipeline for both of its prospective stars. For Hoffman, Maude Apatow comedy Poetic Licence, Gregg Araki's erotic thriller I Want Your Sex, and Luca Guadagnino's OpenAI deep dive Artificial all await, while Jonsson's card is stacked with LFF bound prison drama Wasteman, Colman Domingo's directorial debut Scandalous!, and an as-yet-untitled project from the one and only Frank Ocean. All of which is to say that if you can't get enough of Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson then good news — there is plenty more on the way!