Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Dakota will star in "‘Don’t Worry, Darling" directed by Olivia Wilde


Variety: Dakota Johnson is in negotiations to join the starry ensemble of “Don’t Worry, Darling,” a psychological thriller from director Olivia Wilde, sources tell Variety.

Johnson will appear alongside the previously announced cast of Florence Pugh, Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine. Wilde has a key supporting role onscreen.

Though little is known about the movie’s plot, “Don’t Worry, Darling” is set in an isolated, utopian community in the 1950s California desert.

Katie Silberman, who co-wrote “Booksmart” and penned the Netflix rom-com “Set it Up,” will write a new draft of the script.

New Line Cinemas is backing “Don’t Worry, Darling” and considers it a high priority, having landed the rights after a heated bidding war due to the critical acclaim of Wilde’s directorial debut “Booksmart.”

Catherine Hardwicke is executive producing the film, alongside Shane and Carey Van Dyke. Wilde and Silberman will produce along with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo Entertainment. Daria Cercek and Celia Khong will oversee the project for New Line.

“Don’t Worry, Darling” reunites Johnson with LaBeouf, her co-star in 2019’s indie hit “The Peanut Butter Falcon.” Johnson also recently appeared in “The Friend,” “Wounds” and director Luca Guadagnino’s remake of “Suspiria.”

Johnson stars next in “The High Note,” a romantic comedy from Focus Features. Tracey Ellis Ross, Bill Pullman and Ice Cube co-star.

She is repped by WME and Untitled.

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Friday, May 1, 2020

Dakota Johnson Wants to Take Over Your TV


Dakota Johnson is just like you—overwhelmed by peak everything, at a loss as to what to watch, googling “best of Netflix….” Or rather, she was operating in this perpetually dissatisfied mode until she realized that she didn’t need other people telling her what to watch or read or listen to. “I have very specific tastes,” she tells me from her home in L.A., where she’s been sheltering since social-distancing rules went into effect. “I know what I think is good and worthy and profound. It’s the things that have honesty and integrity, a sense of wonder behind the storytelling, and pay profound attention to detail.”

It’s these kinds of cultural products that Johnson hopes to champion through her production company, TeaTime, launched last fall with her friend (and former Netflix exec) Ro Donnelly—“I stole her,” Johnson cheerfully explains. “The ideas for TeaTime was to allow people to experience what we think is brilliant and hilarious and thought-provoking.” The company has several projects in development, but given the shutdown of life as we know it, many of these things have been pushed back to uncertain timelines. Right now, however, Johnson and Donnelly are releasing top-10 lists of their favorite things to stream, and, at the top of each month, their favorite things to read and art happenings to “visit.”