Actress Elizabeth Olsen has found her next project, teaming up with Julia Roberts for the Warner Bros. thriller Panic Carefully.
The 35-year-old actress – who was spotted in a stunning red dress at a Flaunt Magazine party in Los Angeles last month – has closed a deal for the film, via ᴅᴇᴀᴅline.
Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) will direct the film from his own script, which will reunite him with Roberts, who previously starred in his TV series Homecoming and his 2023 film Leave The World Behind.
Leave The World Behind debuted last November and became Netflix’s fifth most popular English-language film of all time with 143.4 million views.
While no plot specifics were given, it was described as a ‘paranoid thriller’ in the same vein as his hit show Mr. Robot and Best Picture winner The Silence Of the Lambs.
Actress Elizabeth Olsen has found her next project, teaming up with Julia Roberts for the Warner Bros. thriller Panic Carefully
Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot) will direct the film from his own script, which will reunite him with Roberts, who previously starred in his TV series Homecoming and his 2023 film Leave The World Behind.
Warner Bros. picked up the project in a heated bidding war, due in part to the studio’s commitment to a theatrical release for the film.
Production is slated to kick off in London this coming January, though no release plans have been unveiled quite yet.
Olsen is coming off The ᴀssessment, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was acquired by Prime Video, though no release is set.
She also has A24’s Eternity with Miles Teller, Callum Turner and Da’Vine Joy Randolph in post-production.
The WandaVision star’s outing comes after she revealed show would love Marvel Studios to ‘to leave a window open’ for the return of her seemingly ᴅᴇᴀᴅ character.
The Love & Death actress made the confession during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in September.
She was asked by Jimmy, 56, about the status of her character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, saying: ‘Wanda is as far as we learned in the last Dr. Strange movie ᴅᴇᴀᴅ, right?’
‘I ᴀssume as much. I think I’m ᴅᴇᴀᴅ,’ she said, though Jimmy suggested they could leave a window open in case she’s not ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.
Olsen is coming off The ᴀssessment, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and was acquired by Prime Video, though no release is set
The Love & Death actress made the confession during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in September
Roberts also made headlines recently when her Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis revealed why she would not appear in a sequel
‘I would beg to leave a window open,’ Elizabeth said.
Roberts also made headlines recently when her Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis revealed why she would not appear in a sequel.
‘I tried doing one with Notting Hill where they were going to get divorced. Julia [Roberts] thought that was a very poor idea,’ Curtis said.
Roberts has After The Hunt in post-production, starring alongside Andrew Garfield, Chloe Sevigny and Ayo Edibiri.
She also has Little Bee in pre-production, though it’s unclear when that will start filming.
