Selena Gomez set to feature in new four-hour ‘X-rated’ movie

From starting off with Barney the Dinosaur to making her name on Disney Channel, Selena Gomez has gone on to have a hugely successful career.

The 33-year-old has achieved a number of hits in her music career, appeared in movies such as Spring Breakers and Emilia Pérez and both produced and starred in Only Murders in the Building.

And now she’s set for her next challenge: a four hour ‘X-rated’ film.

Not too much is known about this just yet, but either way, that description alone sets Gomez far apart from her Disney kid days.

This has come about following Cate Blanchett letting slip a little detail during a masterclass at Cannes Film Festival on Sunday (17 May) that she is ‘about to work with Brady Corbet on a film’.

Cate Blanchett revealed she is working on the film. (Teresa Suarez/Pool/Getty Images)

And Variety has now confirmed that Blanchett and Gomez have been cast in The Brutalist director’s next project, alongside Michael Fassbender.

The plot details of this untitled film are still wrapped up in secrecy but Corbet has spoke a little bit in interviews about wanting to make an ‘X-rated’ feature set in the 1970s.

“The film spans from the 19th century into the present day — it’s just predominantly focused on the ’70s. The film is really, really genre-defying,” he told the Hollywood Reporter.

It’s also reported that the film is being shot using pretty rare eight-perf 65mm cameras.

Corbet also teased at Storyhouse Screenwriting Festival in Dublin last month, that it has a whopping 200-page script to go with it.

And if you’re looking for a comparison there, The Brutalist had a hefty 165 pages, coming in at a three-and-a-half-hour runtime.

Corbet's film will reportedly be 4 hours. (Kristy Sparow/Getty Images for Disney)

The Corbet film will be produced by Andrew Morrison for his Kaplan Morrison production banner. As well as the aforementioned The Brutalist, his other credits include The Testament of Ann Lee, The World to Come and Funny Face.

While we don’t know just what is going to happen in this film or what the ‘X-rated’ may translate as, it follows Gomez distancing herself from the Disney Channel image we grew up with her as.

She previously told Variety she felt ‘free’ of the pressures that came with growing up in the Disney spotlight.

“It’s not that I’m ashamed of my past, it’s just that I’ve worked so hard to find my own way,” the star said. “I don’t want to be who I was. I want to be who I am.'

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