Zac Efron will star in and executive produce an “Angel Heart” series from HBO and A24.
The one-hour drama show, written and executive produced by “Black Rabbit” creator Zach Baylin.
It is based on the 1978 horror novel “Falling Angel” — which was adapted into the 1987 Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro movie “Angel Heart” — as well as the book’s sequel “Angel’s Inferno.”
The logline reads: “A down-and-out NYC paparazzi, who makes his living finding and photographing people who don’t want to be found, is hired by a mysterious man to find a missing woman. But the deeper he digs to find her, the more it looks like a group of powerful elites, and maybe something supernatural, are covering up the disappearance.”
“Angel Heart” is executive produced by Marc Toberoff, Max Hjortsberg, Lorca Hjortsberg, Alice P. Neuhauser, Baylin and Kate Susman for Youngblood Pictures; Joe Hipps for Cut To; and Stuart Manashil, Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss.
Efron last teamed with A24 on the 2023 biographical sports drama “The Iron Claw,” in which he played the troubled wrestler Kevin Von Erich.
The "High School Musical " alum has a couple of other projects coming down the pike, including Jody Hill’s thriller “Famous,” in which he plays a 38-year-old loser who uses his uncanny resemblance to a movie star to pursue his showbiz dreams.
Efron is also starring opposite Will Ferrell in Nicholas Stoller’s “Judgment Day,” about a reality TV judge who is taken hostage on air by a disgruntled man who blames him for his life spiraling out of control.
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