EXCLUSIVE: María Gabriela de Faría, the Venezuelan actress recently cast as the villain The Engineer in Warner Bros/DC’s upcoming Superman film, is set to star in the new serial killer movie Romanticizing Monsters, directed by Berkley Brady (Dark Nature).
In the film, de Faría will play Amelia Velez, a reporter and true crime podcaster who investigates a series of missing person cases linked to a suspected serial killer that neither her boss nor the police believe is real.
The project, produced by Justin Kelly and Katisha Shaw, will be featured in the Frontières International Co-Productions Market at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal today. Nicole Hilliard-Forde and Matthew Lessall are overseeing casting for the film.
De Faría, who is soon to wrap her role in James Gunn’s Superman, the first entry in a revamped DC slate scheduled for release on July 11, 2025, will also star alongside Dylan Sprouse in the upcoming comedy The Duel. This film will hit theaters at the end of July, distributed by Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment.
Before her role in Superman, de Faría gained recognition for her lead role in Lionsgate’s The Exorcism of God, a supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Alejandro Hidalgo, which premiered at Fantastic Fest and was released by Saban Films. She has also appeared in indie drama R#J, a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, as well as in TV series such as Fox’s Animal Control and The Moodys, and Syfy’s Deadly Class.
Berkley Brady, known for co-writing and directing Dark Nature and contributing to Screambox’s Creepypasta, is represented by Great North Artists Management, while de Faría is represented by Buchwald.
