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Warner Bros, Margot Robbie and The Best Of Me producer Denise Di Novi have picked up the film rights to Beautiful Things, Gin Phillip’s thrilling novel of the same name. The story is set around a mother and son who become trapped in a zoo with a crazed gunman on the premises. At this stage, it’s uncertain if Robbie will star, Variety reports.
Robbie is surely but steadily is wading her way into the world of producing. The Hollywood Reporter cited the 26-year-old Suicide Squad actress had cemented her good relations with film production house Warner Bros by signing a first-look deal in September 2016. Translated, this means her production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, which she shares with colleagues (and boyfriend) Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara and Sophia Kerr, will operate under the Burbank-based studio, Warner overseeing a first-look at LuckyChap’s scripts and films.
Robbie is set to co-produce a Harley-Quinn-based spin-off of Suicide Squad. Despite terrible reviews, the film grossed US$700 million worldwide. In addition to this sequel which will include other DC characters, Robbie will executive produce a film called Queen of the Air, an adaptation of Dean N. Jensen’s 2013 novel about a trapeze artist and a tragic love affair. She will star in both films.
LuckyChap’s first film is thriller Terminal (currently in post-production) followed by I Tonya, where Robbie will play disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding. The story will follow the two-time Olympic champion who hired a man to break her competitor Nancy Kerrigan’s right leg so she would be unable to compete at the 1994 Olympics.
The move by Warner is reportedly all part of it’s renewed focus on female-driven storytelling, something both Reese Witherspoon and Alicia Vikander’s separate production companies have put into play in recent years. Wonder Woman will be one of Warner’s first to highlight this new move.
We wonder if Robbie will move out of her big share-house if she becomes a big-time producer? Probably not.
