From modern-day New York city (Shame) to 1920s Long Island (Baz Luhrmann‘s much-anticipated The Great Gatsby) to the Australian outback, in the Film District-distributed, Gary Ross-directed sci-fi film aptly titled Outback. Nissar Modi has written the script from an idea by Modi and Ross. [Variety]
Mulligan earned her sci-fi stripes, in Mark Romanek‘s understated Never Let Me Go, while Ross is in the middle of earning his with his big-budget adaptation of Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence as well as every other hot-to-semi-hot young actor/actress in the business right now.
Though Mulligan, ever-young, already has a dud to her name (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), there’s no denying her select-ability and penchant for challenging herself. Plan for further proof of as much in Nicolas Winding Refn‘s upcoming actioner Drive and Steve McQueen‘s Hunger follow-up Shame, co-starring Michael Fassbender. [The Playlist]
What do you think of Mulligan? Ross?