Hot to win the WGA Award for original screenplay on Sunday night, Promising young woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell is ready to write the film DC Zatanna for Bad Robot and Warner Bros. This deal was closed for a while, I understand. No word yet on whether Fennell will drive.
The character, who is a magician, was created by Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson, making his debut in November 1964 Hawkman. Like her father Zatara, she has many magical powers and, in this first edition, she is on a journey to find him. Zatanna became involved with the Justice League, had a childhood with Batman and was romantically linked to the character John Constantine. The character was played by Serinda Swan for three seasons at CW’s Smallville.
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Bad Robot is producing through his contract with Warner Bros. DC Films President Walter Hamada is overseeing the project.
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Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, starring Carey Mulligan, has been on a hot streak since his world premiere at Sundance 2020. The photo has been nominated for five Oscars, including three for Fennell in the Best Film, Direction and Original Screenplay categories. The launch of Focus Features is also available for editing and Mulligan for Best Actress. Promising young woman was nominated for four Golden Globes, including Best Drama Film, Director, Screenplay and Mulligan in the Best Actress slot. The actress competes for the award for Best Female Actor SAG, and the film competes for the maximum prize of the PGA Awards.
Fennell broke the Oscar barrier last week when he became the first filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director for a feature film debut. Together with Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao, they became the sixth and seventh women to be nominated in the Best Director category. Fennell is also the third woman to be recognized with three nominations in a single year, after Sofia Coppola for Lost in translation and producer Fran Walsh for Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Fennell also stars as Camilla Parker Bowles in the fourth season of the award-winning Netflix drama series The crown. When cinemas reopen in London’s West End, the musical Cinderella – that Fennell wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber about music – is about to lift the curtain.
Fennell is represented by UTA, United Agents, Management 360 and Hansen Jacobson Teller.