Lee Sung Jin just turned in the scripts for the second season of Netflix/A24’s “Beef” and they are ready to start production by late summer or fall. It also looks like it’s being turned into an anthology series with a completely different cast being assembled for this sophomore outing.
The storyline will again revolve around two feuding couples. According to Deadline, Charles Melton (“May December”) and Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”) are being courted to play one of the couples. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway are playing the other. No deals have been signed yet, but these are the actors that Lee and company want.
This will be a reunion for Gyllenhaal and Hathaway, they previously teamed up on the Ed Zwick-directed “Love & Other Drugs,” released in 2010. Melton is coming off a breakout performance in Todd Haynes’ “May December,” ditto Spaeny who excelled in Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla.”
Last year’s highly entertaining “Beef” tackled A road-rage episode that lead to a sprawling, and totally unhinged, feud between a struggling contractor (Steven Yeun) and a successful entrepreneur (Ali Wong). It was a critically acclaimed series that won eight Prime Time Emmys, one for Outstanding Limited Series or Anthology Series, the two leads, Best Directing, and more.