Margot Robbie’s Publish-‘Barbie’ Plan Is Taking Form
How do you follow-up the largest film of your profession? For those who’re Margot Robbie, we’re starting to search out out.
It was a mere 14 months in the past that Barbie depleted the world’s provide of pink on its solution to turning into the fifteenth highest-grossing movie of all-time, with a $1.4 billion complete on the field workplace. Since then, the movie’s star, producer, and biggest champion has gone off the radar — partially as a result of she and husband / LuckyChap Leisure producing associate Tom Ackerley predict their first baby (congrats!), nevertheless it’s additionally a calculated transfer on Robbie’s half.
After months of promotion of Barbie, together with recreating the doll’s most iconic outfits throughout the press tour, Robbie was requested by Deadline about whether or not she deliberate on taking a break from the highlight. “[I] suppose everybody’s most likely sick of the sight of me for now,” she answered. “I ought to most likely disappear from screens for some time. Actually, if I did one other film too quickly, individuals would say, ‘Her once more? We simply did a complete summer season together with her. We’re over it.’ I don’t know what I’ll do subsequent, however I hope it’s a short time away.”
Nicely, it’s been a short time, and Robbie has been busy planning what’s subsequent.
First up, she has A Large Daring Lovely Journey, the brand new venture from Columbus and After Yang director Kogonada. The movie is described as “an unique story of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them,” with the strangers being performed by Robbie and Colin Farrell (the spectacular forged additionally consists of Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Hamish Linklater, and Billy Magnussen). Not a lot else is understood concerning the “female-focused” A Large Daring Lovely Journey, aside from Robbie has a brand new look and it comes out on Could 9, 2025, Mom’s Day weekend.
Robbie will go on a distinct type of journey in Wuthering Heights. She was forged as Catherine Earnshaw to Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff (not the cat) within the adaptation of the basic Emily Brontë novel from author and director Emerald Fennell in her follow-up to Saltburn. And identical to with Saltburn and Fennell’s Oscar-winning directorial debut, Promising Younger Girl, Robbie is producing the movie via her manufacturing firm, LuckyChap Leisure.
That’s the place a lot of Robbie’s consideration is lately. To return to the Deadline interview from above, she referred to as producing a “24/7” job, during which “we don’t get a break.” Exterior of Wuthering Heights and the not too long ago launched My Previous Ass, LuckyChap is behind a lot of upcoming titles, together with the next:
– Avengelyne, primarily based on the character from Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld
– Olivia Wilde’s Christmas comedy Naughty
– Sirens, a darkish comedy restricted sequence picked up by Netflix from Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler that’s about “ladies, energy and sophistication”
– A Tank Woman reboot
– An adaptation of the acclaimed novel My 12 months of Relaxation and Leisure, probably directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
– Films primarily based on online game The Sims and board sport Monopoly (hey, it labored for Barbie)
Not all of LuckyChap’s beforehand introduced movies will see the sunshine of the day (I’m rooting for you, Large Thunder Mountain!), and that’s most likely holding the founders up at evening. However Robbie is up for the problem, particularly if it means extra alternatives for feminine filmmakers, writers, and producers. “We got down to break boundaries with and for feminine expertise, and if it isn’t a venture that might probably do this, then it’s not a venture for us,” she mentioned earlier this 12 months.
Robbie doesn’t management the railways or the circulate of commerce, however she does have a big affect on Hollywood, and she or he’s utilizing the huge clean verify that Barbie offered her to make the flicks she desires to see. Her job isn’t seaside. It’s actor, producer, mogul.
