Scarlett Johansson, Chalamet and a Dinosaur
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Cillian Murphy's blood, Scarlett Johansson's battle, Hot docs in hot water, Viggo Mortensen goes west, and Bumble.
Let’s go!
THE INDUSTRY NEWS
Scarlett Johansson + Dinosaurs. After Jennifer Lawrence passed on the project, Johansson is now in talks to star in the new Jurassic Park film, which is set to shoot at the end of July.
Gareth Edwards (The Creator, Rogue One) will direct, and David Koepp, who penned the original Jurassic Park (1993), will write.
Universal has made a carefully calculated move to relegate the previous Jurassic World trilogy to extinction:
Jurassic World (2015)
$1.67 bn WW
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
$1.3 bn WW
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
$1 bn WW
Dominion received a 29% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Coming out of the strikes, the content desert has continued, with Hollywood production work evaporating, such that big studio projects with massive talent fees and a hard green light seem to be a refuge for A-listers.
Universal is pushing hard for a summer 2025 release.
Oscar winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is out for blood—or at least Universal is. Universal has taken the rights to the book Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America.
Here’s the official synopsis:
In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his wife and daughter were brutally murdered in their old stone farmhouse. Seven months earlier, Yablonski had announced his campaign to oust the corrupt president of the United Mine Workers of America.
The most infamous crimes in the history of American labor unions, the Yablonski murders triggered one of the most intensive and successful manhunts in FBI history―and also led to the first successful rank-and-file takeover of a major labor union in modern U.S. history, one that inspired workers in other labor unions to rise up and challenge their own entrenched, out-of-touch leaders.
Murphy will play Joesph Yablonski’s son Chip, who wasn’t in the house the day of the murderers and made it his life’s mission to get justice for his father by petitioning the department of justice.
Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (Edge of Tomorrow) will write the script.
Murphy will also produce.
Last month A3 shuts down. Now, out of the ashes, Arise Artists Agency is being launched by Brian Cho (Former A3 CEO) along with former A3 agents.
Cho stated: