Without giving away any spoilers, Fennell recalled shooting the climactic scene of the film, in which Carey Mulligan’s character exacts her revenge.
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Clayton Davis “Promising Young Woman” producers Margot Robbie and Josey McNamara believe that writer and director Emerald Fennell “can do it all.”“The great thing about Emerald as a filmmaker [is] from that very first moment she pitched us when she delivered the script, she knew the movie in her head instantly,” McNamara tells Variety’s Awards Circuit podcast.
“She could talk about it so clearly.”In this week’s episode, McNamara and Robbie talk about recognizing the talents of Emerald Fennell
.Without giving away any spoilers, Fennell recalled shooting the climactic scene of the film, in which Carey Mulligan’s character exacts her revenge.
Promising Young Woman star Alfred Molina has recalled his experience reading the script for the first time.The actor, who makes a cameo appearance in Emerald Fennell’s debut feature as a lawyer called Jordan, said he was “shocked and intrigued” when first reading.“When I read the script, I was shocked and intrigued, and it made me laugh — it scared me! But the scene itself struck me very hard,” Molina said in an interview with Variety.In his scene of the film, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) visits
Carey Mulligan. We’re chatting – the actor, director Emerald Fennell and me – about one of the most talked-about films of recent times, Promising Young Woman.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Promising Young Woman,” the dark comedy starring Carey Mulligan, will be offered for free to college students.Focus Features, the film’s backer, has partnered with RAINN, the country’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, to host virtual screenings of the film on April 15.
The 2021 British Academy Film Awards saw one of its most diverse list of winners yet, as hosts Edith Bowman and Dermot O'Leary kicked off the virtual ceremony on Sunday. The star-studded ceremony, filmed at London's Royal Albert Hall, saw a huge night of success of international talent, with Daniel Kaluuya continuing his clean sweep with a win for Best Supporting Actor.
Promising Young Woman has been the film on everyone’s lips in recent months. It won the best British film award at the BAFTAs and been nominated for five Oscars.
At Sundance Film Festival, in the winter of 2020, director Emerald Fennell released her debut feature film Promising Young Woman to the public and immediately received high praise for this bold and unhinged slice of cinema.
Emerald Fennell is living large in 2021. After becoming a critical darling out of the festival circuit with “Promising Young Woman,” the film was eventually released and has picked up a ton of trophies during awards season, all culminating in multiple Oscar nominations.
Emerald Fennell is reflecting on filming “Promising Young Woman” while nearing the end of her pregnancy.
Promising Young Woman star Carey Mulligan has said her new film unpicks the “normalised” behaviour of predatory men.The actress, who plays Cassie in writer-director Emerald Fennell’s debut, opened up about the film’s themes in regard to her character seeking revenge on “nice guys” taking advantage of women.“We’ve all grown up watching this story told through a different lens, we’ve all seen the guy at the frat party trying to identify the most drunk girl that he can lose his virginity to,”
Martha Lauzen For the first time in its 93-year history, the Academy has nominated two women for best director. Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell will compete with David Fincher, Lee Isaac Chung and Thomas Vinterberg for the coveted honor.
Promising Young Woman will finally be released in the UK next month.Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, starring Carey Mulligan, is set to premiere on Sky Cinema and NOW in April after lengthy delays due to the coronavirus pandemic.The film follows a young woman named Cassie who seeks revenge on predatory “nice guys” following a tragedy that occurred in her days at medical school.Mulligan plays Cassie, and stars opposite Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, Connie Britton, Adam Brody and
Jasmin Rosemberg I’ll admit, I went into “Promising Young Woman” in the utterly blind way that trauma victims probably shouldn’t go into anything.My decision to rent it was inevitable after reading rave reviews on social media from a wide cross-section of colleagues, young and older, which is perhaps why I also made the mistake of watching it with my mother.
Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Welcome to this week’s “Just for Variety“…With the West End set to reopen in May, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cinderella” musical, with a book by freshly minted Oscar nominee Emerald Fennell, is back in rehearsals. “We just had our first run-through for Emerald,” Lloyd Webber tells me.
Promising Young Woman, is to write a new DC movie based on comic book heroine Zatanna.Fennell, who is also known for her showrunner work in Killing Eve and acting roles in The Crown and The Danish Girl, will write the forthcoming film for Warner Bros.’s DC Films and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions, reports Variety.It will be the first time Zatanna, who is one of the most powerful sorcerers in the DC Extended Universe, is featured in a film franchise.
Hot off of winning the WGA Award for original screenplay on Sunday night, Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to write the DC movie Zatanna for Bad Robot and Warner Bros. This deal has been done for a while, I understand. No word yet as to whether Fennell will direct.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterEmerald Fennell, the Oscar-nominated director of “Promising Young Woman,” is taking on a different kind of vigilante. She has been tapped to write “Zatanna,” a big-screen adaptation of the DC Comics heroine.The movie, from Warner Bros.’ DC Films and J.J.
Another guild award is in the books, ladies and gentlemen. The Writers Guild Awards are in the rearview mirror now, with some definite Oscar implications.
NEW YORK -- Sacha Baron Cohen's “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honors, best adapted screenplay.At the guild's virtual, pre-recorded 73rd annual awards, the biggest winners were a pair of awards-season dark horses. Best original screenplay went to the script for the feminist revenge thriller “Promising Young Woman,” by writer-director Emerald Fennell.