'Zatanna' will be an opportunity to make something big and scary
Actor-filmmaker Emerald Fennell says she is looking forward to focusing on the DC Films' upcoming movie about superhero Zatanna as it allows her to go "dark" in a tentpole Hollywood project. Fennell, who won the Academy Award for best original screenplay on her behalf directorial debut 'Promising Young Woman' earlier this season, is mounted on write the script for 'Zatanna'.
The project comes from studio Warner Bros and filmmaker JJ Abrams' Bad Robot. "'Zatanna' is very interesting... what Warner Brothers are doing - they're letting people be, or at least wanting to be - led by the story. And there are several reasons for having her that felt like they could be really, really interesting."
"And it will be an chance to make something really quite dark and that appealed if you ask me, to make something big and scary. I love that stuff," the writer-director told.
Created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson in 1964, Zatanna is a magician like her father Zatara. Zatanna has been involved with the Justice League, has already established a childhood with Batman, and was romantically from the character John Constantine.
Fennell, 35, said she actually is excited about dealing with Abrams, known for films like 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' and 'Mission: Impossible III'.
"The things about 'Zatanna' that's so interesting is firstly dealing with Bad Robot And J J (Abrams). If you grew up loving things such as 'Jurassic Park' and Spielberg and all of those Hollywood-Hollywood movies, J J is merely so exciting," she said.
The director, who's expecting her second child with filmmaker-husband Chris Vernon, said also she is planning to take a break before getting back to work.
"I'll have this baby, take the time off and I've got a thing or two I'm writing to direct. And what I'll do I think, because it was so wonderful on 'Promising Young Woman', with that one I'm not likely to tell anyone. Nobody is aware of them so I'll just deliver the scrips and see if anyone likes them and wants to make them," she added. Fennell, the filmmaker became the first woman director to be nominated for best director for a directorial debut. Her film has also earned Academy Award nods for best picture, editing, and actress for Carey Mulligan.
