Zendaya’s Film ‘Challengers’ to Hit Japanese Screens in June, Soundtrack by Trent Reznor

The film ‘Challengers’ will open in Japan on Friday, June 7.

The film is the latest work by Luca Guadagnino, who was nominated for an Academy Award for ‘Call Me by Your Name’ in 2018, which depicted the love between a boy and a young man, and won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival for ‘Bones and All,’ a 2023 road movie based on escape and love between young cannibals The latest film by director Luca Guadagnino. Both films also attracted a lot of attention with Timothée Chalamet in the lead role. His latest film, ‘Challengers,’ tells a love story spanning more than a decade between a former tennis star who loves two men simultaneously and a tennis player who is at the mercy of her two best friends.

The main character, former top tennis player Tashi Duncan, is played by Zendaya, who also appeared in the ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Dune’ series and played the main character Lou in the HBO drama ‘Euphoria/Euphoria.’ This is her first appearance in a film directed by Guadagnino. Josh O’Connor, who won a Golden Globe for his role in the Netflix drama series ‘The Crown,’ and Mike Feist, who was nominated for a British Academy Award for his role in Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ will play the male tennis player who is at the mercy of Tashi. Mike Feist, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.

The film’s music will be composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails. The duo, who created the music for ‘Gone Girl’ (2014), ‘Waves’ (2019), and ‘The Empire of Light’ (2022), will return to score Guadagnino’s previous film, ‘Bones and All.’