Margot Robie in talks to join Tina Fey comedy “Taliban Shuffle”October 23, 2014 - 11:59 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - After a succession of dramatic roles, Margot Robbie is taking a step toward some comedy, The Hollywood Reporter said. The Wolf of Wall Street breakout is in negotiations to join Tina Fey in The Taliban Shuffle, Paramount’s adaptation of journalist Kim Barker’s wartime memoir. The move will reteam her with Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who directed her opposite Will Smith in the 2015 thriller Focus. Fey is producing the political black comedy with her former Saturday Night Live boss and 30 Rock cohort Lorne Michaels. The book recounts Barker’s arrival as a fish out of water in Kabul, filing stories about militants, being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan and dealing with boredom interspersed with dashes of violence and the promiscuous war-correspondent culture. Robbie will play a blond, gorgeous and hard-core on-air news anchor who befriends Baker (Fey) in Afghanistan. The character has been described as very competitive and willing to do anything, including put herself and others in danger, to get a story to launch her reporting career. Dealmaking is a little bit tricky on this one as Robbie is also in talks to star in The Suicide Squad, Warners’ DC-based movie being directed by David Ayer. Ayer is currently writing the script, although that movie wouldn't shoot until spring of 2015. But Robbie does need to make room to promote Focus, which opens Feb. 27. Robbie, who is no longer attached to star in Fox’s love drama The Mountain Between Us, recently wrapped playing Jane in Warners’ Tarzan movie. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |