Update: Paramount Pictures has won the bidding war for the film.
Following the critical success of last year’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Academy Award nominee Timothée Chalamet is looking to reunite with director James Mangold for a brand new movie titled High Side. The project will be based on an unpublished short story written by Jaime Oliveira. The story centers around a motocross rider who gets involved in bank robberies. It is currently being pitched around studios as well as publishing companies.
Chalamet is currently in production for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, which will arrive in theaters on December 18, 2026. Prior to reprising his iconic role as Paul Atreides, the acclaimed actor will next be seen in A24’s upcoming sports comedy-drama Marty Supreme. The Josh Safdie-directed movie will hit the theaters on December 25, 2025.
What is the new Timothée Chalamet movie about?
“In High Side, Billy is a former MotoGP racer, haunted by a career-ending crash and a family legacy of abandonment, is drawn back into the world of high-speed risks and extreme danger. His estranged brother, already being pursued by the FBI, recruits him for a series of bank robberies on superbikes. A gifted motocross rider, Billy walked away from the sport after a devastating accident, and he has been making do caring for his addict father and the family garage,” reads the synopsis.
“He’s blindsided when his estranged older brother Cole resurfaces — just after their father’s death — with a proposition: use Billy’s talents for something bigger. Robbing banks. Cole assembles a mismatched crew, including a woman who becomes Billy’s lover, and they begin knocking over small-town desert banks with speed and precision. But as the stakes rise, Lennox, an FBI agent with a complicated history with Cole, closes in as the crew preps its biggest score, a bank job timed with a big motorcycle parade. There are high-speed action and emotional twists and turns in the climax.”
(Source: Deadline)
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