David Harbour exits Tony Gilroy's Behemoth! amid Stranger Things aftermath

Movieweb reports that, according to Variety, David Harbour has dropped out of Behemoth!, the new film written and directed by Tony Gilroy for Searchlight Pictures, forcing the production to recast the role he was set to play.

Variety says Harbour left to rest after the exhausting process of making the fifth and final season of Netflix's Stranger Things, whose two-hour series finale premiered on New Year's Day 2026. Behemoth! follows Alex Serian, a "musician from a family of musicians who returns to Los Angeles," and Gilroy describes the film as a "love letter to the music of the movies and the people who make it." The cast announced includes Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, Matthew Lillard, Alexa Swinton, Margarite Levieva and Barry Livingston, and Gilroy has said Pascal’s character is a cellist who has been practicing the instrument "very diligently."

Harbour had told Screen Rant at Rose City Comic Con last fall that the end of Stranger Things was hard to process and that he needed time to recover: "I almost couldn't process it... It took me, like, another six months to really know how I felt to be honest." Beyond the note that Harbour's role will be recast, the report gives no further casting updates.

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