Margot Robbie developing Beautiful Things thriller with absurd/excellent premise
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The book has only just been sold to publisher Viking, but the synopsis is a humdinger. I’ll divulge it piece by piece:
‘It centres on a mother and her son…’ Fair enough.
‘It centres on a mother and her son trapped in a zoo…’ Consider my interest piqued.
‘It centers on a mother and her son trapped in a zoo with a gunman on the loose.’
What! What madness is this! Why a zoo? Why is it called Beautiful Things? Will the gunman be picking off majestic animals one-by-one, and the mother and son must decide which creature is next? How exactly does one get trapped in a zoo?
These questions are a long way off being answered, with the movie having no details beyond its existence at this stage.
Robbie has starred in three Warner Bros films thus far - Focus, The Legend of Tarzan and Suicide Squad. She is currently executive producing and starring in a fourth based around her Suicide Squad character Harley Quinn, and has another lined up called Queen of the Air.
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