EXCLUSIVE: Todd Haynes’ gay romance De Noche, which shut down about a year ago, is being revived, with Pedro Pascal circling. According to sources, the plan is for this feature to get up and running in the New Year in Guadalajara, Mexico and a lot of that is being worked around the 4x Emmy nominated actor’s busy schedule from now into 2026.
This is a great ray of sunshine for a production which was long considered kaput after Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix left the production after reportedly being a no-show on set for two weeks prior to its unplugging. Vachon has said publicly that Phoenix brought the project to Killer Films which has a long history making LGBTQ fare. It was never known exactly why Joker Oscar winner Phoenix departed De Noche. Vachon waved off gossip at last year’s San Sebastian Film Festival and said that it was a “tragedy” that the Haynes film fell apart.
Pascal would join Danny Ramirez who was originally attached to the project. They’ll play two men in love who leave Los Angeles for Mexico, the feature set in the 1930s. Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler’s Killer Films is producing. Killer recently worked with Pascal on A24’s summer romantic comedy Materialists ($85M worldwide).
Vachon also has a long working relationship with Haynes, producing the Oscar nominated filmmaker’s canon including his 1991 directorial debut Poison, Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far From Heaven (2002), I’m Not There (2007) and Carol (2015).
Haynes was nominated for original screenplay at the Oscars in 2003 for his Julianne Moore movie Far From Heaven.
Pascal is nominated at this year’s Emmys for HBO’s The Last of Us in the Best Actor Drama Series category. It’s his second Emmy nom for the show in that category. He was also nominated for The Last of Us in Actor TV Drama at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards.
Pascal is repped by CAA and Jackoway, Austen, Tyerman, etc. Haynes is repped by CAA, Cinetic Media, and Sloss Eckhouse Dasti Haynes LawCo.
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