Barbie and Sex Education star Emma Mackey has been tapped for the leading role in Warner Bros.’ secret J.J. Abrams movie, which will reportedly center around “a young married couple struggling to survive against a supernatural entity.”
This marks Mackey’s latest high-profile project following the massive success of Barbie, where she appeared as Physicist Barbie. She is currently attached to star in two movies, including Hot Milk with Vicky Krieps and Ella McCay with Jamie Lee Curtis, which are both set to premiere sometime in 2025.
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The untitled project will also be led by Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell and Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega. It will be written and directed by Abrams. The Star Trek director will also serve as a producer through his Bad Robot production banner. This would be Abrams’ first directorial movie over five years since Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
At the moment, Ortega is currently in production for Wednesday Season 2, where she’s set to reprise the titular iconic character. Besides starring in Abrams’ secret movie, she will also star in Taika Waititi’s film adaptation of Klara and the Sun with Amy Adams and Natasha Lyonne and in the black comedy Death of a Unicorn with Paul Rudd. As for Powell, he most recently starred in Lee Isaac Chung’s disaster movie Twisters, which had received positive reviews. He is currently filming Edgar Wright’s The Running Man remake, based on Stephen King’s dystopian thriller novel of the same name.
(Source: THR)
