Margot Robbie Could Be Our New Attacking 50 Foot Lady

In 2024, we discovered Tim Burton was being eyed to direct a remake of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman for Warner Bros. from a script by Gillian Flynn. Now, the director might have discovered his lead in fellow WB alum Margot Robbie.

Per Variety, the Barbie actress is in “early conversations” to headline the movie, which tells the story of a rich heiress who turns into giant-sized after assembly an alien. Her subsequent transfer, upon realizing her new stature, is to enact some payback on her dishonest husband. Ought to she tackle the position, Robbie can even produce the movie via her manufacturing firm LuckyChap. The remake would additionally reunite Warner Bros. with Robbie and Burton after Barbie and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hit huge for the studio in 2023 and 2024.

The unique Assault of the 50 Foot Lady launched in 1958 by director Nathan Hertz, and Hollywood has thought of remaking it a number of instances over the many years. Just one really got here to fruition—a TV model for HBO in 1993 from Christopher Visitor starring Darryl Hannah—however the idea has been parodied or referenced by filmmakers and pop artists like Beyonce and Lana Del Ray. (For the millennials, Dreamworks’ Monsters vs. Aliens had a large girl named Ginormica who was 49’11.)

We’ll have extra data on this Assault of the 50 Ft. Lady remake because it comes out.

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