Whoever Cast Bad Times at the El Royale Deserves All of the Awards

Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges, who has appeared in True Grit, The Big Lebowski, and Crazy Heart, among many others, will play Father Daniel Flynn, a criminal pretending to be a priest.

Best known for playing Celie in the 2015 Broadway revival of The Colour Purple, Cynthia Erivo will appear as Darlene Sweet, a singer whose past is tied to that of "Father" Flynn's in some mysterious way.

Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson is set to play Emily Summerspring, a sweet and sassy Southern outlaw.

Jon Hamm, best known for starring as Don Draper in Mad Men, will appear as Seymour "Laramie" Sullivan, a smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman.

Cailee Spaeny, whose first major breakout role was in 2018's Pacific Rim Uprising, will appear in the film as Emily's younger impressionable sister, Rose Summerspring, who is also a cult member.

Newcomer Lewis Pullman, who appeared last year in The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Aftermath, Lean on Pete, and Battle of the Sexes, will play Miles Miller, a nervous young concierge at El Royale who must keep an eye on the hotel's guests.

Thor hottie Chris Hemsworth is going to play a charismatic but unstable cult leader named Billy Lee.