Barbie Star Margot Robbie in Talks for Tim Burton's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman Remake

Tim Burton himself is remaking the classical movie Attack of the 50 Foot Woman — and it looks arsenic though helium whitethorn person recovered his starring woman successful nary different than Margot Robbie, who whitethorn besides nutrient the movie nether her LuckyChap accumulation institution label.

The Wolf of Wall Street and Barbie prima is presently successful talks for the rubric role, according to Variety, and the deal, should it beryllium made, would see Robbie producing the movie alongside her LuckyChap partners, hubby Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara. However, the task is presently searching for a caller writer and Robbie’s engagement with the movie would beryllium connected the last mentation of the script.

Margo Robbie whitethorn prima successful Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic.

Initially, Gone Girl novelist and screenwriter Gillian Flynn wrote a archetypal draught of the film, but ended up exiting the task aboriginal connected successful favour of different projects. She was primitively slated to constitute the movie erstwhile the quality broke successful February 2024 that Burton was taking connected the classic.

LuckyChap is simply a highly sought aft accumulation institution astatine this point, with Robbie and writer-director Greta Gerwig’s smash deed Barbie taking the spotlight connected their resume. Warner Bros. signed a first-look woody with the workplace arsenic a result, truthful it makes consciousness it would privation to collaborate with her again connected a large reboot.

Plus, Burton is simply a fable himself, and he’s done a batch for the workplace recently. In 2024, his sequel movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ended up being a container bureau hit, adjacent 40 years aft the merchandise of the archetypal film. With implicit $450 cardinal coming from Burton’s latest project, it’s besides a no-brainer for Warner Bros. to springiness him the reins to marque his magic erstwhile again.

Robbie’s chiefly been producing since Barbie, but she tin adjacent beryllium seen successful Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.