Anne Hathaway to Star in New Dinosaur Film From David Robert Mitchell at Warner Bros. And Bad Robot
A new project has been added to the overall deal that J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has with Warner Brothers, as It Follows director David Robert Mitchell is writing and directing a new event film that has Anne Hathaway lined up to star.
The project was first posed as a rumor by Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic With Jeff and John, who said that the film will have a dinosaur angle, in what seems to be a move by Hollywood to start exploring pre-historic Earth without having to pay Steven Spielberg’s rate as executive producer (Adam Driver’s 65 may be the first in that line of thinking). Deadline backed up the story shortly afterwards, though they couldn’t confirm the dinosaur part. Instead, they described it as a “thrill ride” that will be shot in IMAX and will be filming in the fall.
Mitchell will also produce the untitled film along with Abrams and Hannah Minghella for Bad Robot, and Matt Jackson for Jackson Pictures; Jake Weiner and Chris Bender are executive producing via Good Fear Content. Mitchell is mostly known for his 2015 hit film It Follows, though he’s only directed another film, Under the Silver Lake, since then. Details on who pitched the project to who remain under wraps, but it could be a big deal for his career.
The film is the last of a seemingly-endless string of projects that Bad Robot has been reportedly developing for the studio, yet almost four years after the deal started, most of them remain in the early stages of development or downright cancelled. They include an Elseworlds Superman film that Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing, a Hot Wheels live-action film in partnership with Mattel, Jason Bateman’s The Pinkerton, and an adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go! from director Jon M. Chu.
Abrams was at one point also going to oversee a Justice League Dark-related series of projects that have been put to sleep after James Gunn and Peter Safran took over DC Studios. He also has multiple projects set up at Apple TV Plus and Netflix, all of them as a producer via Bad Robot. Three years after the release of The Rise of Skywalker, we still haven’t heard about his next directorial endeavor; rumors say he might be returning to the Star Trek franchise after Matt Shakman departed the in-development fourth film with the Chris Pine-led crew.
Anne Hathaway was last seen in Armageddon Time, which had some early Oscar buzz that didn’t ultimately come to fruition. Her new film She Came to Me, by writer-director Rebecca Miller, just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, while Eileen, by director William Oldroyd and based on the novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, screened at the Sundance Film Festival; it was one of the most acclaimed films shown there.
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.
