Olivia Wilde is expected to direct and recent Poor Things writer Tony McNamara will pen the script.
Warner Bros. is negotiating a film rights deal for Avengelynflagship comic from the creator of Deadpool, Rob Liefeldabout an angel who fights against the forces of evil.
Most of the deals are closed. According to the Deadline portal Margot Robbie is considering starring in the main character (subject to script), Olivia Wilde will direct and the writer of Poor Things, Tony McNamara, will write the script. On board to produce is LuckyChap, a production company that Robbie runs with Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara, and Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon through their Gender label.
It’s the second big deal for the studio in a week. Warner Bros. has closed a $2.5 million deal to secure a rights package for a film about Chris Farley who will star Paul Walter Hauserwith Josh Gad directing. The deal with Avengelyne is even bigger.
LuckyChap comes off the success of Barbie, last year’s highest-grossing film with eight Oscar nominations. Wilde directed for the last time Don’t Worry Darling and before Booksmart.
What Avengelyne is about
Avengelyne is an angel who fights against the forces of evil and often comes face to face with demons and monsters. She was the most feared warrior in Heaven’s Warhost, having single-handedly broken into Pandemonium, the outer fortress of Hell, to confront the Devil himself. She is a fallen angel, banished from heaven by God after being tricked into questioning her love for humans. Avengelyne was stripped of all of her angelic abilities, beyond her great strength and her blood, which once extracted from her body, could be used as a weapon or miracle, when she empowered herself by quoting verses from the Bible. Avengelyne uses her powers to fight demons on Earth and is being groomed to be humanity’s last hope in the coming Armageddon.
Kinberg has produced the Deadpool movies that grew out of the Liefeld comics, and that led to the conversation about Avengelyne, which Kinberg brought to Robbie. They brought in Wilde and McNamara; between Deadpool, Barbie, Poor Things and Booksmart, there’s an avant-garde sensibility they hope to replicate.
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