Tony Gilroy Says He's Never Written a Character Like Pedro Pascal's in Behemoth!
- Director Tony Gilroy's film 'Behemoth!' held its world premiere at the 64th New York Film Festival, marking his return to feature films after a 14-year absence.
- Centered on cellist Alex Serian, played by Pedro Pascal, the story follows the musician's return to Los Angeles after 20 years of self-imposed exile navigating his formidable musical family.
- To craft the film's immersive score, Gilroy collaborated with nine composers billed as the 'Behemoth! Collective,' while Pascal learned to play the cello to ensure his performance looked authentic.
- The film utilizes a fractured, non-linear structure where the score serves as the narrative spine, blurring diegetic and non-diegetic music to merge reality and fiction.
- 'Behemoth!' releases December 4, 2026, utilizing Dolby Atmos sound technology to immerse audiences in the professional music world and heighten the film's sonic ambition.
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‘Behemoth!’ Review: Pedro Pascal Plays a Wayward Cellist in Tony Gilroy’s Movingly Atonal Character Study About How People Conduct Themselves
Purposefully unfolding like a piece of classical music that’s lost its melody among a maze of overlapping leitmotifs, Tony Gilroy’s “Behemoth!” is a much slippier and more elegant thing than the scale implied by its title — the deception of which is purposeful as well. Sure, there are car crashes, crane shots, and nine different composers to the film’s credit (with giants of the form like Alan Silvestri, Michael Giacchino, and James Newton Howar…
‘Behemoth!’ Review: Pedro Pascal Is a Classical Cellist Skating Through a Midlife Crisis in Tony Gilroy’s Elevated Bauble of a Music Drama
"Behemoth!" is a classical-musician movie. It’s a midlife-crisis movie. It’s a romantic mystery. It’s Tony Gilroy fiddling around with pure movie form.
‘Behemoth!’ Review: Tony Gilroy & Pedro Pascal Turn Music, Memory & The Burden Of Family Legacy Into A Graceful Crescendo
There’s nothing quite like the evocative, ephemeral, almost unconscious way music triggers memory—or the strange emotional distance it can travel in an instant. A melody, a few notes, even a particular sound can summon something nostalgic, amusing, joyful, embarrassing, painful, or sad—sometimes several of those things at once. That multitude of feeling, and the way musical memory so often leads back toward family, humiliation, longing, old woun…
‘Behemoth!’ Review: Pedro Pascal Hints at Soulful Depths, but the Drama Keeps Stalling in Tony Gilroy’s Wan Character Study of a Virtuoso Cellist
Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Will Arnett and Alexa Swinton also star in the story of a former child prodigy struggling to free himself from the burden of his famous family.
‘Behemoth!’ Review: Pedro Pascal Hits All The Right Notes In Tony Gilroy’s Lyrical Love Letter To The Music Of The Movies – New York Film Festival
It has been 14 years since Tony Gilroy last directed a feature film, 2012’s The Bourne Legacy. Before that was Duplicity and in 2007 his sensational Oscar nominated Michael Clayton. He has been busy though, notably the critically acclaimed TV series, Andor, but it is good to see his rare sophisticated storytelling back on the […]
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