Ana de Armas Hired Emerald Fennell To Punch up ‘John Wick’ Spin-off ‘Ballerina’
In an interview with Elle magazine, Ana de Armas confirmed that she hired Promising Young Woman writer/director Emerald Fennell to punch up the script for John Wick spin-off, Ballerina, that she’s developing.
She explained that this was because, when she boarded the project, there were no other women attached in a female-centric action film:
“It was really important for me to hire a female writer, because to that point when I got involved in the project, it was only the director, Len Wiseman, and another guy. And I was like, ‘That’s not going to work.’ So I interviewed, like, five or six female writers. We hired Emerald Fennell, which I was so proud of.”
According to Variety, it will be up to the Writers Guild of America to decide whether or not Fennell receives credit for her work in the movie, as she was hired to punch up the script from Shay Hatten and Len Wiseman.
Ana de Armas is currently promoting his latest film The Gray Man, from the Russo Brothers. Right after, she will start gearing up to promote Blonde, a new biopic where she plays Marilyn Monroe, which will probably land her a first Best Actress Oscar nomination. She is also in post-production of Ghosted, a new movie from Dexter Fletcher and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, where she will team up, once again, with Chris Evans.
Emerald Fennell is currently filming Saltburn, her next directorial effort, which she also wrote, starring Rosamund Pike and Barry Keoghan. She also has an acting part in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and is in pre-production of DC’s Zatanna solo film. She won an Oscar in 2021 for writing Promising Young Woman, her feature directorial debut, which starred Carey Mulligan. Mulligan will probably be another awards contender this year with She Said, which debuted its first trailer today.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
