EXCLUSIVE: It seems Baz Luhrmann has discovered the title heroine for his Warner Bros epic Jehanne d’Arc. Deadline hears he’s in early talks with Isla Johnston to play Joan of Arc. You may bear in mind her from The Queen’s Gambit, the place she performed the youthful model of the Beth Harmon character that was a breakout function for Anya Taylor-Pleasure.
This was the new function amongst younger actresses — possibly not the suitable option to describe it, since Joan was burned on the stake within the 1400s after main the troops within the Siege of Orleans and urgent for the coronation of Charles VII because the French king throughout the Hundred Years’ Warfare. She is taken into account a patron saint of France.
Luhrmann has been prepping the movie, and he winnowed the sphere to a small group of kids earlier than deciding on Johnston. He wrote the script with Ava Pickett, a playwright who lately carried out the primary studying of the script for many of the groups from Warner Bros, from manufacturing to advertising and marketing and publicity. This was carried out on the Chateau Marmont, within the room the place the primary draft of Insurgent With no Trigger was learn aloud for Warner Bros brass again within the day. Luhrmann’s design associate Catherine Martin backed up Pickett with a visible presentation.
Johnston has the supply, and that is definitely a possible career-making alternative for the actress, who’s repped by The Artists Partnership within the UK and UTA. Warner Bros had no remark.
