Adria Arjona is set to star in Onslaught, the next film from You’re Next and Godzilla X Kong director Adam Wingard, said to be a ‘gonzo action thriller’.
Having starred in two well-received thrillers over the past year – that’d be Blink Twice and Hit Man – Adria Arjona’s reportedly set to appear in another one, this time from director Adam Wingard.
Most recently, Wingard’s been best known in multiplexes for his expensive monster flicks – 2021’s Godzilla Vs Kong and 2024’s Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire. For his next film, it’s said that the filmmaker’s returning to the smaller-scale thrillers of his earlier career, most notably 2011’s You’re Next and 2014’s The Guest. As reported in May, it’s called Onslaught, and its script, co-written by Wingard and Simon Barrett, is described as a ‘gonzo action thriller’ by The Hollywood Reporter.
From what’s known about that script so far, it sounds as though Onslaught will feature some sort of monster, albeit not necessarily as big and city-wrecking as Godzilla or Kong. According to THR’s undercover agents (okay – studio sources), “Arjona will play a mother who falls back on a particular set of skills in order to protect her loved ones after she runs afoul of a threat that has escaped from a military base.”
Could Onslaught be a more action-oriented take on something like JJ Abrams’ Super 8, with Ajia Arjona fighting an alien that’s broken out of an Area 51-like installation? If so, we’d pay to watch that.
Arjona will reportedly executive-produce the movie as well as star in it, while boutique studio A24 (Everything Everywhere All At Once, Civil War) will co-finance alongside Lyrical Media.
Having remained consistently busy over the past decade, Arjona’s career has really taken off of late, not least thanks to her terrific performance in the aforementioned Hit Man, directed by Richard Linklater, in which she starred as a mysterious woman who hires Glen Powell’s hitman to off her husband. Arjona’s similarly shiny in Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut, the enigmatic island thriller Blink Twice, amid a cast which also includes Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum.
More on Onslaught as we get it.
