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Lucas Hedges (born December 12, 1996) is an American actor. A son of filmmaker Peter Hedges, he studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Hedges began his acting career with a supporting role in Wes Anderson's comedy-drama Moonrise Kingdom (2012). He had his breakthrough in 2016 playing a sardonic teenager in Kenneth Lonergan's drama Manchester by the Sea, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hedges then starred as an aggressive youth in an off-Broadway production of Yen and had supporting roles in the coming-of-age film Lady Bird and the drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in 2017. In 2018, Hedges played the lead role of a teenager forced into a gay conversion therapy program in Boy Erased, which earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama. He also made his Broadway debut in a revival of Lonergan's drama The Waverly Gallery in the same year. In 2023, he starred in a West End theatre production of Brokeback Mountain. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lucas Hedges, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Birthright is a dark fantasy epic grounded in emotional realism — a story about family trauma, lost innocence, destiny, and the terrifying consequences of turning a child into a weapon. Blending grounded suburban drama with massive mythological fantasy, the project reimagines the acclaimed comic series as a prestige live-action fantasy saga designed for mature teens and adults. The adaptation combines the emotional intimacy of family-centered storytelling with the scale and spectacle of high fantasy warfare, creating a world where magic and emotional scars are equally dangerous. The story centers on the Rhodes family, whose lives are shattered when their youngest son, Mikey Rhodes, mysteriously disappears without a trace. His disappearance becomes a national obsession. Police investigations fail. Media speculation destroys the family’s reputation. Accusations, grief, and emotional exhaustion slowly tear the Rhodes household apart. Then, one year later, Mikey suddenly returns. But the boy who vanished is gone. Instead, a fully grown warrior appears in his place — physically older, hardened by war, covered in scars, carrying enchanted weapons, and claiming he has spent years trapped in a brutal fantasy realm known as Tyrannos. In that world, Mikey became a legendary champion destined to save an entire civilization from annihilation. To the public, Mikey becomes a miracle. To his family, he becomes a mystery. And to himself, he may be something far worse. As Mikey attempts to reconnect with the family he left behind, disturbing truths begin to emerge about Tyrannos, the prophecy that shaped him, and the ancient evil secretly manipulating both worlds. What initially appears to be a classic “chosen one” fantasy slowly transforms into a psychological and supernatural conspiracy involving possession, corruption, interdimensional warfare, and the destruction of identity itself.
