Last year, Disney described but the franchise has been in development hell basically since the last soft-reboot, , in 2017. In 2020, it was announced was developing a female-forward with her screenwriter Christina Hodson. By 2022, she figured anymore.
But “These things take time,” franchise producer and Hollywood powerhouse Jerry Bruckheimer says in . According to him, Robbie’s version still has a fighting chance. Currently, there are “two different” movies in development that are set in the POCCU ( Cinematic Universe).
One is a written by Jeff Nathanson ( ) and one is the Robbie/Hodson project. “We hope to get ‘em both made, and I think Disney agrees they really want to make the Margot one, too,” Bruckheimer teases. (In fairness, he was saying the Robbie/Hodson version was still alive in 2022, shortly after Robbie assumed it was dead.
) The buried lede here is that the dead project is Craig Mazin’s. as recently as September 2023, saying Disney bought his and co-writer Ted Elliot’s script even though it was “too weird.” Maybe the weirdness ultimately bumped Mazin and Elliot from the docket, or maybe it was Mazin’s schedule that prevented him from going all-in on .
Whatever the case, his doesn’t seem to be one of the two POCCU projects in development right now. Instead, it’s Nathanson’s script, which has a “great, great third act” (and which Bruckhemier wishes he could for, but alas, it’s a reboot and apparently not up to him), and the Robb.