Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh Starring in ‘We Live in Time’

The pair, who presented at the Oscars this past weekend, will share the screen in a movie for the first time.

(L to R) Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield present the Oscar® for Original Screenplay during the live ABC telecast of the 95th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

They’re both respected popular actors, have massive online followings and near broke the internet when they showed up at the Oscars this weekend past, presenting the screenplay prizes.

So it should be no surprise that word of Florence Pugh in negotiations to star together in a new romantic drama is big news.

According to Deadline, they’re now circling the leads in ‘We Live in Time’, which unusually for a non-Marvel/big studio blockbuster is being kept very quiet in of plot.

All that the site has been able to ferret out is that it’s “a funny, deeply moving and immersive love story.” We can already imagine the Tumblr posts.

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield present the Oscar® for Original Screenplay during the live ABC telecast of the 95th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12, 2023.

Who is making the new movie?

While neither Pugh nor Garfield’s deals are in place yet, the movie does have a team ready to make it. Nick Crowley, who directed ‘Boy A’ (in which the actor played a man recently released from prison after committing a crime as a child), is on to call the shots.

The Last Letter from Your Lover’, wrote the script.

Leah Clarke, Adam Ackland and Guy Heeley are among the producers and, thanks to the involvement of the actor’s Sunny March company, Benedict Cumberbatch is an executive producer.

If everything works out with the casting, Crowley should have the cameras rolling later this year.

(L to R) Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire from 'Spider-Man: No Way Home.' Photo Courtesy of Marvel Entertainment's Instagram.

What are Garfield and Pugh up to?

Garfield was most recently seen on the big screen in the one-two punch of ‘Tobey Maguire.

He also received acclaim for TV drama ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’, which saw him as a Mormon police officer investigating a murder mystery within his community.

Pugh, meanwhile, was seen last year in ‘The Wonder’ and ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’.

for the actor is Dune: Part Two’, where she’ll play Princess Irulan Corrino.

After that, Pugh will return to the Thunderbolts’.

(L to R) Florence Pugh as Allison and Morgan Freeman as Daniel in 'A Good Person,' directed by Zach Braff, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Credit: Jeong Park / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures. © 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.