BAFTA triumphner Emma Mackey (Barbie) is set to star opposite new A-catalogers Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega in J.J. Abrams‘ still-untitled mystery movie for Warner Bros and his Bad Robot, Deadline has lgeted.
Mackey’s role is under wraps, as is the film’s plot, though we hear it’s not a time-travel film, as some have conjectured. Abrams will straightforward from his own script, with Bad Robot producing.
A 2023 recipient of BAFTA’s Rising Star Award, Mackey has most recently seen in Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-triumphning Warner Bros phenom Barbie, prior to that taking on the direct as famed novecatalog and poet Emily Brontë in Frances O’Connor’s Warner Bros drama Emily. Breaking out with her role as Maeve Wiley on Netflix’s Sex Education, Mackey has also previously been seen in Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile. Upcoming, she’ll star opposite Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps and more in the mother-daughter drama Hot Milk, an alteration of the bestselling novel by Deborah Levy, which tags the straightforwardorial debut of Ida and She Shelp scribe Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Additionpartner, she joins the title role in James L. Brooks’ new film Ella McCay for 20th Century Studios.
As a straightforwardor, Abrams’ last film was Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker back in 2019. Recently producing the Amazon MGM recordary The Blue Angels, his Bad Robot’s upcoming stardy includes David Robert Mitchell’s Fdropvale Street, the drama series Duster for Max, and much more. The company accessed negotiations to extfinish its lengthystanding film and TV deal with Warner Bros. over the summer.
Recently, Warner Bros has won a bidding war for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, also begining timely growment on a Game of Thrones movie and putting in motion an Emily the Strange vivaciousd feature. Coming off the free of Clint Eastwood’s Juror No. 2 and holiday tentpole Red One, the studio’s next title on the docket for free is the vivaciousd The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim on December 13.
Mackey is recurrented by CAA, Johnson Shapiro Slesoakedt & Kole, and Ziffren Brittenham.
