HIM (2025)

Last updated on October 8th, 2025 at 05:20 am

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Rising-star quarterback Cameron Cade has devoted his life, and identity, to football. On the eve of professional football’s annual scouting Combine, Cam is attacked by an unhinged fan and suffers a potentially career-ending brain trauma. Just when all seems lost, Cam receives a lifeline when his hero, Isaiah White, a legendary eight-time Championship quarterback and cultural megastar, offers to train Cam at Isaiah’s isolated compound that he shares with his celebrity influencer wife. But as Cam’s training accelerates, Isaiah’s charisma begins to curdle into something darker, sending his protégé down a disorienting rabbit hole that may cost him more than he ever bargained for.

Filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Previously known as GOAT.

Director Justin Tipping was quoted saying: “My instinct was to set it up in a way that it feels like we’re in Friday Night Lights, or a Gatorade or Nike ad. We’re rooting for the kid who just needs to unlock one thing to take it to the next level. And then we subvert the expectations and let it become Nosferatu or Ex Machina, and let it evolve or devolve — depending on your sensibilities — into something it’s not. Once I started leaning into some of my favorite horror — which would be more in the vein of a Jacob’s Ladder — the creative floodgates just opened.”

Marlon Wayans plays “the retiring star.”

Tyriq Withers will play “the young athlete.”

Produced by Jordan Peele via his Monkeypaw Productions banner.

It’s said that the project is based on a “Black List” script by Zack Akers and Skip Bronkie. The Black List is an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays.

Universal Pictures released HIM in Theaters on September 19, 2025.

Universal Pictures International released HIM in UK Cinemas on October 3, 2025.

Universal Pictures released HIM on VOD and Digital Platforms on October 7, 2025.

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment releases HIM on SteelBook, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on November 11, 2025.

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Director: Justin Tipping