It’s shaping as much as be a busy 12 months for Colman Domingo, who’s making ready to make his directorial debut with Scandalous! in 2025.
Whereas discussing his new Netflix sequence The Madness, the Oscar-nominated actor informed Deadline he’s planning to enter manufacturing on the upcoming movie, which stars Sydney Sweeney in a “fractured love story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak,” after they full filming on Season 3 of HBO‘s Euphoria in the summertime of 2025.
“Our aim is to shoot it proper after we’re each accomplished with Euphoria, so hopefully I’ll go into prep proper after that subsequent 12 months, most likely within the third quarter of subsequent 12 months,” he famous. “After which hopefully we’ll make an exquisite, candy movie that’s actually about the potential for love, however underneath many eyes, making an attempt to have privateness, making an attempt to have love, making an attempt to have a life. And I feel it’s one thing that Sydney and I each know very properly. We’re making an attempt to advocate in your humanity once more in your life.”
Domingo praised Sweeney for bringing him onto the venture after working collectively on Euphoria, wherein he performs Narcotics Nameless sponsor Ali Muhammed and he or she stars as highschool scholar Cassie Howard. They each return for the long-awaited third season, which begins filming in January.
“The gorgeous factor is, Sydney Sweeney as a producer introduced me on board as a director for this. The venture landed in her palms, and he or she thought, who could be director to interact together with her on this, and he or she considered me,” he defined. “I learn the script, and I had some notes — I did a page-one rewrite of it. She beloved it. So, we had been actually partaking one-on-one in that manner of what probably we are able to make collectively, kind of this fractured love story between Sammy Davis Jr. and Kim Novak.
“After which we additionally simply solid David Jonsson to go on this journey with us, so it feels nonetheless very intimate, with Jonathan Glickman at Miramax. So, it appears like we’re nonetheless within the dream state of it,” added Domingo.
Novak, star of Vertigo, and Rat Pack member Davis had been on the peak of star energy once they met whereas visitors on The Steve Allen Present. They fell laborious for one another, however as rumors unfold, the rampant racism in America threatened to derail their careers. Novak expertise the ire of Harry Cohn, the Columbia Footage chief who had the actress underneath contract. Her covert affair with Davis turned massive information when a Chicago gossip columnist wrote an in depth account of their relationship in early 1958, together with their plans to wed, regardless of their denials. 9 days later, Davis married a Black refrain lady named Loray White.
