Because 2025 wasn’t already strange enough, Kevin Spacey is now a director again. For the first time in over two decades, the twice-Oscar-blessed-turned-Hollywood-pariah has stepped behind the camera, and naturally, he’s also starring.
The film? A supernatural action-thriller called “Holiguards.” Variety reports that it stars Spacey alongside an eclectic grab bag of co-stars including Dolph “I Must Break You” Lundgren, Tyrese “Why Am I in Morbius?” Gibson, Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool’s angsty teen), Disha Patani, Eric Roberts (eternally contractually obligated to appear in everything), and a few other influencers.
Here’s the plot: in a future torn apart by supernatural forces, two warring factions—the Holiguards and the Statiguards—are fighting a shadowy war over humanity’s fate. A young woman, conveniently born from both sides of the ancient blood feud, might just be the key to peace… unless a Statiguard strategist nukes Paris first while opening a cosmic portal to awaken something ominously named “the Prime.” (No relation to Amazon.)
Shot in Mexico on a $10M budget, “Holiguards” is now deep in post-production, prepping itself to launch what producers are already calling a franchise. The project is backed by Elledgy Media, run by Portugal-based Ukrainian entrepreneur Elvira Gavrilova Paterson, whose name sounds almost as fictional as the movie’s plot.
Following “Air,” this is Affleck’s latest stint behind the camera. He has cast himself in the lead role, alongside Kerry Washington, Steven Yeun, and Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”).