Black Widow and Captain America are going to house. Apple simply picked up the rights to a brand new film known as Project Artemis which can star Scarlet Johansson and Chris Evans and be directed by Jason Bateman, who will even co-star. The script is by Rose Gilroy, who’s the daughter of Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy and Thor star Rene Russo.

Deadline broke the information of the undertaking which, in keeping with the commerce, “is set against the space race”—which I discovered complicated as a result of after I first heard the information I assumed it could be Artemis, the second guide from Martian author Andy Weir, which Phil Lord and Chris Miller have been set to supply. It’s not. Weir additionally has a 3rd guide, Project Hail Mary, which is additionally going to be a film and which makes issues much more complicated (one guide known as “Artemis,” one other known as “Project”). Then after all there’s the proposed 2024 moon touchdown which is being known as “Artemis,” the Disney+ streaming film Artemis Fowl, the lead character of Ready Player One (Art3mis), and so on. None of that are this undertaking. (Though the upcoming moon touchdown looks like it may be a part of the story?)

Whatever the plot is, we all know what we’re going to get with Johansson and Evans. They’re charismatic, proficient actors who may flip virtually any function into one thing heroic and thrilling or darkish and disturbing. What is most intriguing to me are the opposite massive names, Bateman and Gilroy. Bateman, after all, is finest often called an actor, having been in every part from Silver Spoons within the Eighties to the present sequence Ozark, which wraps up subsequent month on Netflix. In that point he’s made directing a precedence too and in recent times he did a number of episodes of not simply Ozark however exhibits like Arrested Development and The Outsider, and the movies Bad Words and The Family Fang. He’s by no means made a giant time sci-fi film however the trajectory for one thing on that scale is there.

Gilroy is much less of a identified commodity, however one solely wants take a look at her background to count on nice issues. Not solely is she the daughter of the loopy proficient Dan Gilroy and Rene Russo, the Gilroys are Hollywood royalty. Dan’s brother, Tony, is the showrunner on the upcoming Star Wars present Andor, which he acquired after co-writing Rogue One, and he was Oscar nominated for writing and directing the 2007 authorized thriller Michael Clayton. He additionally wrote the primary a number of Jason Bourne motion pictures, and directed The Bourne Legacy, which starred Jeremy Renner. Dan and Tony’s brother John Gilroy edited not simply a lot of his siblings’ work, he additionally did The Suicide Squad, Pacific Rim, and extra.

Oh and their father, Rose’s grandfather, was Frank Gilroy, a Tony Award and Pulitizer Prize-successful playwright. All of which is to say no matter Artemis finally ends up being, it ought to have an excellent pedigree each on digital camera, and behind it.

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