Superhero, Gay Monk, What Can't Kit Do

Everything really is coming up Kit Connor -- having just been cast to play Cyclops in Marvel's new X-Men line-up, the Heartstopper star has got two projects clamoring for my attention in particular. (And that's besides Andrew Haigh's A Long Winter, which I'll be seeing at NYFF.) First up today comes news that he will star as the real life 1980s murderer and tabloid sensation Robert Chambers in PRƎPPY from (drumroll please) Zola director Janicza Bravo. As massive Zola-heads we're already buying our tickets -- Diana Silvers from Ma and Booksmart will be playing Chambers' victim Jennifer Levin; if you google what Chambers looked like you'll see Kit's casting is extraordinarily generous but then what's new. 

The second project of Kit's that I cannot believe I haven't given any updates on since we first heard rumors of it in May, since there have indeed been updates -- the movie is called Rapture and it's about mediveal monks battling the undead, killed by a plague that makes their corpses rise, and it is going to shoot this fall. And as mentioned before it will also star Kit's Warfare pally Will Poulter as well as MNPP fave Manu Rios. Oh and it's gay -- two of the monks, who grew up together, share a "deep, passionate relationship." I'm assuming that the monk-boys in love will be Connor & Rios since they're the same age while Poulter is a decade older, but if they all want to have a threesome while the zombies bang on the door I wouldn't complain. Quite the opposite, actually!