Fraser was also recently cast in the upcoming comedy Brothers alongside Glenn Close, Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin. That film (which has been described as a redux of the 1988 smash-hit comedy Twins, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito) was written by Etan Cohen, whose credits include Tropic Thunder and Get Hard, and will be helmed by Max Barbakow, who recently directed Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. Those roles follow Fraser’s July 2021 appearance in Steven Soderbergh’s heist flick, No Sudden Move. He’s also nominated for several awards for Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, as well as a new action-heavy series hitting The CW soon! Plus, he will once more reprise his role as Cliffe Steele (a.k.a. Robotman) on HBO Max’s Doom Patrol Season 4. Fraser’s fans, of course, can’t get enough of his casting news. The “Frasurgence” is hitting Fraser himself right in the feels. In an August 2021 video interview, the actor got choked up talking about how he’s being welcomed back by his fans with open arms. Want to know where Fraser’s been, why he seemed to step back from showbiz and what he’ll be doing next? Keep reading to find out all about what’s in store for Brendan Fraser in 2023!
Is Brendan Fraser making a comeback?
Yes, clearly! To recap, here’s a list of just the feature film projects that are on Fraser’s upcoming calendar: Killers of the Flower Moon and Brothers.
What movies and TV shows is Brendan Fraser in for 2023?
After the release of No Sudden Move in July 2021, Fraser had a star turn in The Whale that earned him endless accolades and critical acclaim, even from reviewers who didn’t like the actual movie itself. In October 2021, it was reported that Fraser will co-star with Smallville star Tom Welling in an upcoming The CW series titled Professionals and described as “a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune.” Welling will play"a top-tier security operative, paid to protect the interests of rich and powerful clients by any means necessary," while Fraser’s character is a billionaire rocket designer named Peter Swann who hires Welling after one of his satellites suffers an explosion. Fraser is also slated to star in Behind the Curtain of Night and The Legend of William Tell.
What is Killers of the Flower Moon about?
The film will depict the real-life events that took place in Oklahoma in the early 1920s, when several wealthy members of a Native American tribe called Osage Nation were mysteriously murdered after large oil deposits were discovered on their land. Grann’s book and Scorsese’s movie will also delve into how these crimes were one of the first big cases handled by the FBI, which was still a nascent government organization at the time. (The book’s full title is Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.)
Who does Brendan Fraser play in Killers of the Flower Moon?
According to Deadline, the 54-year-old Fraser will play lawyer W.S. Hamilton in the true crime thriller (based on reporter David Grann’s bestselling 2017 tome), which is currently in production and will be released by Paramount Pictures and Apple TV+.
What is The Whale about?
According to the film’s synopsis, The Whale is about “a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.” That teacher is presumably Fraser’s character, meaning he’s got the main role. But according to Fraser in a recent interview with Unilad, “It’s gonna be like something you haven’t seen before. That’s really all I can tell you.” He also told Newsweek about the film, “The wardrobe and costume was extensive, seamless, cumbersome. This is certainly far removed from anything I’ve ever done but not to be coy… I do know it’s going to make a lasting impression.” A24
Who does Brendan Fraser play in The Whale?
For Aronofsky’s The Whale, which co-stars Samantha Morton and Stranger Things star Sadie Sink, Fraser gained weight to play a 600-pound gay man named Charlie who’s estranged from his Mormon family. A24
What is No Sudden Move about?
“It’s a great story, a favorite genre that is going to be directed by a world-class director who is most at home in this milieu,” Fraser gushed to Newsweek in June 2021 about No Sudden Move, which also stars Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Benicio Del Toro, Julia Fox, Jon Hamm, Kieran Culkin and David Harbour (phew!). Set in 1955 in Detroit, No Sudden Move centers on some small-time criminals whose latest heist—stealing what they thought was just a simple document—goes unexpectedly awry. Their quest to track down whoever hired them and the real reason behind the job takes them to some dark, chilling places. Fraser recently told Collider that he loved the “brevity” of working with Soderbergh, explaining that the director would put tiny cameras in “glove boxes of old cars, and under tables, wherever it needed to be, so we could move very quickly and get a lot done in very few takes. It’s just a testament to how competent he is as a filmmaker.”
What has Brendan Fraser been up to?
Before the “Brenaissance” hit its full stride in 2021, Fraser was in two films in 2019 (The Poison Rose and Line of Descent) and starred in The Secret of Karma in 2020. He also had a recurring role on The Affair in 2016 and 2017 and starred in Trust and Condor in 2018.
Why is Brendan Fraser not in movies anymore?
Fraser was a box office star for a long time, beginning with roles like Encino Man before going on to star in franchises like The Mummy and fun family projects like George of the Jungle; he also exercised his leading-man charms in projects like Blast From the Past and Bedazzled. Then, around the late 2000s and early 2010s, it felt like he just disappeared. What happened? For one thing, during his decade-long turn as a marquee name, Fraser’s body took a beating. “By the time I did the third Mummy picture in China [in 2008], I was put together with tape and ice—just, like, really nerdy and fetishy about ice packs,” he told GQ. He had to undergo several surgeries and said he spent about seven years in and out of hospitals.
Was Brendan Fraser blacklisted from Hollywood?
In addition to his physical trauma, Fraser also endured emotional suffering, going through a divorce and losing his mother. There was also something even darker at play, according to Fraser: He accused Philip Berk, former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the organization that runs and hosts the Golden Globes) of sexually assaulting him in 2003. He was too mortified in the moment to do anything, and Berk denied it occurred. However, Berk did apologize to Fraser in a letter on behalf of the HFPA, and Fraser has said that since 2003, he’s rarely invited to the Golden Globes, and that he wonders if he was blacklisted. Fraser said the incident made him depressed and that he blamed himself for it. The alleged assault, he said, “made me retreat. It made me feel reclusive.” “The phone does stop ringing in your career, and you start asking yourself why. There’s many reasons, but was this one of them? I think it was,” he explained. “I bought into the pressure that comes with the hopes and aims that come with a professional life that’s being molded and shaped and guided and managed. That requires what they call thick skin, or just ignoring it, putting your head in the sand, or gnashing your teeth and putting on your public face, or just not even…needing the public. Ignoring. Staying home, damn it. You know, not ‘cause I’m aloof or anything, but because I just felt I couldn’t be a part of it. I didn’t feel that I belonged.” Next, find out Brendan Fraser’s net worth.
