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Zendaya to Star in Alex Garland Sci-Fi Film at A24

Director Alex Garland's new science fiction project comes with a studio and a star, and every outlet reporting it says nothing else has been announced; the internet is coping.

On air: Lola Cruz and Dale Bearman on #Trending
Published 11:07 AM ET, Thursday, October 15, 2026

Photo: PhilipRomano · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Zendaya — Photo: PhilipRomano · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

At a glance

First reported by Variety: “Zendaya to Star in Alex Garland Sci-Fi Film at A24”.
Covered on BBN on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 11:07 AM ET on #Trending, by Lola Cruz and Dale Bearman.

The real story

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VarietyZendaya to Star in Alex Garland Sci-Fi Film at A24

What BBN said about it

Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentZendaya has been cast in a new science fiction film directed by Alex Garland at A24, and it is trending this morning on Google.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentVariety, Deadline and IndieWire all have it, and all three agree on the same thing: no other details have been announced.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the internet is panicking over a film with no title, no plot and no date. Sci-fi, Lola. Garland. It's never a happy ending.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentYou don't know that.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI know it's a spaceship, a corridor and someone saying we shouldn't have come here.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI've seen all of them, and I'll be in the front row.
Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentI have covered twenty years of conflict, and this is the first time I've had to fact-check a movie that doesn't exist yet.