Margot Robbie is in the first conversations to join the remake of Tim Burton of “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman” for Warner Bros. If an agreement concludes, Robbie would produce the new film with the partners of Luckychap Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara with an eye to play.
The news announced last February that Burton was working on a reinvention of the 1958 science fiction film, which follows a rich heiress which becomes a giant after an extraterrestrial meeting and takes revenge on her cheating husband. The creator “The Nightmare Before Christmas” planned to lead, as well as producing alongside Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper. Kai Dolbashian is an executive producer.
The writer of “Gone Girl”, Gillian Flynn, wrote a first draft of the script, but has since left the project due to other commitments. The producer team is currently looking for a new writer, and Robbie’s participation as a main actor would depend on the final version.
Potential collaboration would be a union between two from Warner Bros. The most recent recent employees. The studio was looking forward to continuing to do business with Luckychap after the success of the Oscar “Barbie” – the most profitable film of 2023 with $ 1.45 billion in the world, as well as the biggest film in the history of 100 years in the studio – and signed the company with a first feature film of several years, from the first year to collaborate on future projects. Robbie, triple nominated at the Oscars, features WB “Wuthering Heights”, Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë, which will be released in next halls in February, and Luckychap also develops a film of “Ocean’s Eleven” in the studio, with the director “Twisters” direct.
Similarly, in 2024, the studio was a great success with “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” by Burton, the long -awaited suite of his 1988 classic “Beetlejuice”. Despite its beginnings almost 40 years after the original, the Poltergeist frightened $ 452 million at the world box office.
The Insneider first reported the participation of Robbie and Luckychap. Warner Bros. had no comments.
