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By Dustin Rowles | News | May 1, 2025
Rachel Zegler has lined up her first post-Snow White project, though she’s also set to star as the title character in a West End production of Evita later this year. Zegler, who was put through the wringer over the box-office failure of Disney’s less-than-mediocre remake, will play the daughter to Marisa Tomei’s mother in the dramedy She Gets It From Me, per Variety.
Based on a true story, the film follows Nicky, “whose engagement celebration turns into a search for her pill-popping, ex-punk rocker birth mother, Charlotte. Together, the two embark on an anarchic mother-and-daughter journey to reconnect.” German director Julia von Heinz (Treasure) will helm the film from a script by Jay Reiss, who wrote the Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Elsewhere, Jake Gyllenhaal is stepping back into the ring for more Road House. Guy Ritchie, who’s somehow managed to direct four movies and launch two TV shows in the past two years, will take over directing duties from Doug Liman, who’s at odds with Amazon MGM over the company’s refusal to release the first film in theaters. Will Beall (Bad Boys: Ride or Die) will write the script. The original was dumb fun, aside from Conor McGregor, who nearly ruined the entire thing because his sociopathic character wasn’t an act. (I saw the premiere at SXSW. McGregor was in attendance and came off like a total sleazeball.)
Chris Hemsworth, whose best non-MCU performance remains in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, is set to star in Subversion, a deep-sea thriller where he plays a Naval Commander blackmailed into smuggling dangerous cargo in his submarine. He must navigate threats both inside and outside the vessel. Patrick Vollrath (7500) will direct from a script by Andrew Ferguson. Hemsworth’s post-Marvel box-office record is spotty, but hey, at least this one’s an original.
Finally, Nicholas Galitzine (The Idea of You, Purple Hearts) will co-star with Marisa Abela (fantastic in Industry, less so in the Amy Winehouse biopic) in The Return of Stanley Atwell, based on a story by Steven Soderbergh. Written and directed by Brian Welsh (Black Mirror), the film is described as a raunchy thriller. Here’s the synopsis, per Deadline:
“Stanley Atwell (Galitzine), the presumed-dead son and heir to Lord Atwell’s title and fortune, unexpectedly returns to the family estate after escaping a decade of mysterious captivity. His shocking reappearance throws the household into chaos as his sister Beatrice fights to claim his inheritance, while close friend Pamela (Abela) manipulates his puzzling return—and a dark family secret—in a bid to seize control of the Atwell fortune. Sex, passion, backstabbing, and betrayal wreak havoc across the estate as the lies and deception the Atwell name was built on begin to unravel. How far is each family member willing to go to protect their wealth and status… and what’s really behind the return of Stanley Atwell?”
Intriguing, even if it sounds nothing like your typical Soderbergh project.
