Casting is important. I feel like I’ve seen dozens of interviews with directors who humbly suggest that once you hire the right actors and let them do their thing, brilliance follows. It’s rare these days to see a truly rotten pairing of performer and role,

In the new horror movie “Opus,” we are introduced to Alfred Moretti, the biggest pop star of the ’90s, with 38 No. 1 hits and albums as big as “Thriller,” “Hotel California” and “Nebraska.”

Malkovich tells Consequence that "I've done all kinds of unlikely things, but that was really a singular experience." How John Malkovich Manipulates the Music in Opus

Though not quite wild enough. Malkovich plays a reclusive music superstar, but the cult-of-celebrity satire of “Opus” never quite sorts out its thriller elements.

The famously intense actor is a bad fit for the role of a dance-pop megastar in Mark Anthony Green's debut film.