Harry Styles to star in Christopher Nolan film

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Well, that didn’t take long. One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles — whose band is on extended hiatus — has been offered a lead role in Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s next project.

If he accepts the role — and by all indications, that is happening — Styles would star in an ensemble of up-and-coming Brits including Jack Lowden, Aneurin Barnard and newcomer Fionn Whitehead.

The film also stars some formidable grownups, including Nolan regular Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and recent Oscar-winner Mark Rylance. But for now, the World War II action-adventure definitely centres on the boys’ involvement in the evacuation of Dunkirk, France, by the British military in 1940.

Warner Bros. declined to comment, but a person close to the project tells media that Styles is all but set for what would amount to a co-lead in the four-way ensemble of young actors.

Slated for summer of 2017, Dunkirk will be Styles’ acting debut, which Deadline first reported Friday. But it won’t be his first time up there; he was big screen-projected aplenty in One Direction: This is Us, the 2013 documentary that grossed a respectable $68.5 million worldwide.

The news ends months of speculation that Styles, now 22, was eyeing an acting career. E! News floated the first trial balloon back in August when Styles’ camp said that it was taking its time looking for “the right role.”

Considering what he was leaving behind, it was a mighty gamble.

One Direction released four studio albums from 2011 to 2014, each one debuting No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, amassing $125 million in one year through sales and touring, Forbes estimated.

It took his agents 6 months, time well-spent. Co-lead in a Nolan ensemble action-adventure?

Either we’ve been incepted, or it sounds like that other direction is off to a dreamy start.