"It's been a year and a half since Joaquin Phoenix dropped out of the gay romance he was set to star in from acclaimed director Todd Haynes, leaving the rest of the cast, crew, and production team in the lurch. The explicit queer noir De Noche seemed all but dead in the water until late last summer, when it was rumored that Pascal might be able to save the film."
"Pascal has been kind of omnipresent the past year, starring in three films ( Materialists; The Fantastic Four: First Steps; and Eddington, alongside his former role haver Phoenix) and The Last of Us. He has The Mandalorian and Grogu and Avengers: Doomsday out later this year. It's easy, perhaps, to cry "overexposure," but doing these big-budget projects can often allow actors to step away and do smaller films without risking their career."
Joaquin Phoenix exited a gay romance directed by Todd Haynes about a year and a half ago, halting production and leaving the cast and crew stranded. Pedro Pascal officially replaced Phoenix on February 4, enabling shooting to begin next month. De Noche, written by Haynes with Jon Raymond, centers on a 1930s Los Angeles cop (Pascal) and a boarding-school teacher (Danny Ramirez) who begin an affair amid widespread corruption. Pascal's recent high-profile roles and commitments to franchises like Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe helped make him available to take on this smaller, explicit queer noir.
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