EXCLUSIVE: Within the wake Barbie racking up eight Oscar nominations together with Finest Image and changing into Warner Bros‘ highest grossing film of all-time at $1.44 billion, right here’s one other feminine energy occasion venture that’s within the works beneath the Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy administration.
We perceive that Tim Burton is connected to direct , a reimagined telling of the 1958 Warner Bros. film basic, which Primetime Emmy nominee Gillian Flynn is writing.
The unique sci-fi cult basic made for a reported $88K starred Allison Hayes as a rich heiress whose shut encounter with an alien triggers her to develop right into a giantess, complicating her marriage which is already in turmoil no because of her philandering husband.
Burton has delivered reimagined ’50s sci-fi films earlier than for a mass viewers, that being 1996’s Mars Assaults (which was really based mostly on the Topps buying and selling vehicles) and featured an ensemble forged of Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Natalie Portman, Danny DeVito, Michael J. Fox and extra. The film grossed over $101M on the international field workplace.
Burton is producing Assault of the Fifty Foot Lady with Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper. Kai Dolbashian is an EP.
Burton has the sequel to his 1988 Warner Bros. blockbuster, Beetlejuice, popping out on Sept. 6; the pic receiving the title at present of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 A.D.
In directing characteristic credit alone, Burton has racked up $4.1 billion on the international field workplace off such hits as Alice in Wonderland, Planet of the Apes, Batman, Batman Returns, and Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility. He’s repped by WME.
Not too long ago, it was introduced that Flynn would adapt her different novel, Darkish Locations, as an HBO restricted collection. She is going to function co-creator, co-showrunner and author of the collection.
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Flynn, a former Leisure Weekly reporter, tailored her personal novel, Gone Lady, for the massive display screen, which David Fincher directed. The film grossed over $369M worldwide and noticed its lead actress Rosamund Pike land an Oscar nom. Flynn additionally tailored her personal debut novel, Sharp Objects, into an HBO restricted collection which landed her a Primetime Emmy nom in restricted collection. Flynn additionally created the Prime Video collection Utopia and wrote the Steve McQueen thriller film, Widows, starring Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Carrie Coon, and Elizabeth Debicki. Flynn is repped by WME, Theresa Kang, and Jackoway Austen.
