(Left) Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in ‘Wednesday.’ Photo: Vlad Cioplea/Netflix © 2022. (Right) Taylor Russell as Judy Robinson in ‘Lost In Space’. Photo: Diyah Pera/Netflix © 2021.
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- Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell may star in a ‘Single White Female’ remake.
- It’s the story of a roommate from hell.
- The original 1992 movie starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Roommates, eh? Can’t live with them, can’t plot to murder them in their sleep.
But it would appear that Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell are looking to move in together cinematically, as, according to reporter Jeff Sneider, the two popular actors are considering signing leases to star in a new take on psychosexual thriller ‘Single White Female.’
“Living with a roommate can be murder.”
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Yes, we’re back in reboot territory, since studios –– in this case Sony –– are still hunting for recognizable IP to churn through their development process and pump out new takes on older titles.
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What’s the story of ‘Single White Female’?
(L to R) Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh in ‘Single White Female’. Photo: Columbia Pictures.
Having recently split from fiancé Sam Rawson (Steven Weber), businesswoman Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) welcomes new roommate Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh).
The young women quickly form a bond, but as Allison starts to rethink her engagement, Hedra grows jealous and hostile. As Allison learns new details about her roommate’s life, Hedra gets violent in her efforts to get Sam out of the picture.
With Hedra turning more menacing by the minute, Allison finally understands what she’s up against…
‘Reversal of Fortune’ director Barbet Schroeder made the movie from a script adapted from John Lutz’s novel ‘SWF Seeks Same’ by writer Don Roos.
While the movie didn’t exactly click with critics, audiences were happy to move in, with the $16 million-budgeted film scoring more than $48 million worldwide at the box office.
And in an age when we’re all unsure about who or what to trust, and so much happens through apps, it still feels like a pertinent story.
Nothing has been said yet about who might take the main role and who would be the psycho roommate, but we can see Russell and Ortega in those parts respectively.
Yet who knows? With no director or writer attached, who is to say that the new movie might mix up the story so that it’s a little less clear who is who?
Where else can we see Jenna Ortega?
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in ‘Wednesday.’ Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2022.
Rising star Ortega might currently be best known for Netflix’s ‘Addams Family’ spin-off series ‘Wednesday,’ which has been a giant hit for the streaming service and is returning later this year for a second season.
This is what she told Variety about the status of the second run:
“We’re still in the edit. I was doing ADR for it two weeks ago That’s the funny thing about these jobs is you’re done, you wrap, but you’re not really done. So, I’ll probably be working on it until the end. I feel like we kind of had a little bit more trust, and therefore, we felt like we could do bigger, more elaborate sequences, which is nice.”
And here’s what she said about progress on the third, which has yet to be commissioned but is surely a no-brainer:
“We haven’t gotten an official thumbs up or anything like that, but I know that the writers are messing around and throwing out ideas. With a show like that, you kind of want to get ahead of the game.”
Elsewhere, Ortega has been seen in the likes of the recent ‘Scream’ movies (though she’s not back for the new one) and ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.’
Coming up, she has new thriller ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow,’ about an insomniac musician who encounters a mysterious stranger, leading to a journey that challenges everything he knows about himself.
That one, directed by Trey Edward Shultz and co-written by/co-starring The Weeknd, will be in theaters on May 16th.
It’ll be followed by Taika Waititi’s latest, ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a fable about a robot girl designed to help humans prevent loneliness. The movie doesn’t yet have a release date.
And ‘Death of a Unicorn’ recently premiered to great acclaim at the SXSW festival.
Written and directed by Alex Scharfman, it also stars Paul Rudd, Anthony Carrigan and Richard E. Grant in the story of Father-Daughter duo Elliott and Ridley, who hit a unicorn with their car and bring it to the wilderness retreat of a mega-wealthy pharmaceutical CEO.
It’ll be in theaters on March 28th.
Taylor Russell in ‘Bones and All’. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Russell, meanwhile, is recognizable from the ‘Escape Room’ movies and indie drama ‘Waves,’ and made an impression opposite Timothée Chalamet in Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal drama ‘Bones and All.’
More recently, she has worked on a new thriller called ‘Hope’ for director Na Hong-jin.
The movie, charts what happens mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. The residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.
In addition to Russell, it stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Cameron Britton, and is awaiting a release date.
She’s also attached to a new version of ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ (the third, for those keeping score) which Michael B. Jordan is preparing to direct and star in.
When will the new ‘Single White Female’ move into theaters?
Sony hasn’t yet confirmed the film at all, let alone when it might actually hit our screens.
Jenna Ortega as Astrid in Warner Bros. Pictures’ comedy, ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Parisa Taghizadeh. Copyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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