Margot Robbie Eyed To Play Giantess In Tim Burton’s ‘Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman’ Remake At WB

It was over a year ago that Warner Bros. tasked director Tim Burton and “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn to put together a new iteration of the classic 1950s monster movie, “Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman,” and now we have a lead actress being eyed for the creature-feature remake.

Variety and other trades are backing up a previous report from TheInSneider in July that in-demand “Barbie” producer and actress Margot Robbie is circling the project, not only via her production banner LuckyChap, but is also in early talks to play the aforementioned fifty-foot woman at the centre of the re-telling of the 1958 film directed by Nathan Hertz.

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The outlet also added that Flynn had been handling the original draft of the script and has since moved on to other projects.

Warner Bros‘ synopsis for the original flick:

Nancy Archer has had an alien encounter, and it’s left her 50 feet tall! Now she sees the men in her life from a new angle—looking down on them—and it’s time to fight back! In this enduring classic of 1950s science fiction, a beautiful, wealthy young woman—trapped in a loveless marriage to a philandering husband who only wants her money—exacts a terrible vengeance when exposure to radiation from an alien UFO causes her to grow into a 50-foot-tall monster.

An interesting part of the original movie’s plot was the involvement of aliens/mysterious spacecraft creating the giantess, which could harken back to Burton’s longstanding obsession with older horror movies. Plus, he previously tackled villainous invading Martians in “Mars Attacks,” which was adapted from the gruesome gross-out collection of Topps cards after Burton couldn’t get “Dinosaurs Attack“ (another gore-fest card collection) made into a film.

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Burton isn’t slowing down anytime soon as the second season of his “Wednesday” series is coming soon to Netflix, and there is already early development on a third “Beetlejuice” installment.