by Nathaniel R
If the future really is female as protest signs and t-shirts so often prophesy, the movies are going to be getting sooo good. This just in: Jessica Chastain's production company Freckle Films is mounting a film called 355 which is a spy thriller based on an idea by and starring Chastain herself. Her co-stars will be Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Fan Bingbing, and Lupita Nyong'o. Excuse us while we faint...
It's like Jessica Chastain is inside our brains and knows which actresses we want to see in things and also knows that we're upset that the forthcoming Oceans 8 didn't have room for EVERY actress in the universe to get involved in secretive high-stakes shenanigans. Obviously Chastain, Cruz, and Cotillard are in demand and would be cast in things without Chastain's guiding hand and feminist impulses but Bingbing and Nyong'o?!? In the same film! When both are so perpetually and bizarrely underused by Hollywood despite being so camera friendly with their combinations of riveting screen presence, real acting talent, and obvious inestimable beauty?!? We're in. And also so excited to see this.
We'd list 355 reasons why we're excited but we just dont have the time today though it's not for lack of reasons available.
The film is about five women, initially at odds, who band together to stop a global organization bent on teetering the world into chaos. It will be directed by newish helmer Simon Kinberg (X-Men Dark Phoenix) from a script by Theresa Rebeck. Yes that Theresa Rebeck. The one who created "Smash" on television. Jessica Chastain really is inside our heads. Or maybe just reading our tweets but we love her for this.