Award-winning actress Elizabeth Olsen who is best known for her time spent playing Wanda Maximoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while being known as indie darling and queen of Sundance in the early days of her career. However, now with her seemingly taking a break from all things Marvel-related. She has a variety of projects lined up set to release or start production over the coming months, ranging from romantic comedy, and science fiction to dark comedy. Here are the projects that we’ll all be seeing her in.
The Assessment | Mia
Announced by Screen Daily last June Elizabeth Olsen will be starring alongside Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and Himesh Patel (Tenet) in The Assessment which is being categorised as a dystopian sci-fi film. The cast members that are starring alongside Olsen, Vikander and Patel are Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting), Charlotte Ritchie (You), Nicholas Pinnock (Django) and Leah Harvey (Foundation). The project was directed by Fleur Fortuné, which will be the debut feature for the filmmaker, whilst Nell Garfath Cox, Dave Thomas and John Donnelly are the writers of the project.
The film is set in a world that has been destroyed due to climate change, due to this how society acts has changed drastically and the majority of things are monitored to create a sort of utopia, which includes the life of a couple (Olsen & Patel), The couple is evaluated by an assessor (Vikander) over the course of seven days which determines whether or not they are suitable for childbearing.
In July it was announced the project will have its world premiere this year at the Toronto International Film Festival. Production for the project took place in Tenerife and Köln, the film is produced by Augenschein Filmproduktion, MMC Movies Köln GmbH and Number 9 Films. Prime Video acquired all international rights excluding Germany and the US for the upcoming film as reported by Deadline, although a date has not been confirmed for its digital release yet, it is now set to release in US theaters March 21 and in German theaters April 3.
Eternity | Joan
In addition to all of this Olsen is set to star alongside Miles Teller (Whiplash), Callum Turner (Masters of the Air), Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers), Olga Merediz (In the Heights) and John Early (Search Party) in A24’s romantic comedy Eternity, which was announced back in March by Deadline. Along with starring in the project, Olsen and Teller are both executive producers for the upcoming project. The project is being directed by David Freyne (Dating Amber) and Patrick Cunnane wrote it who previously worked as the senior writer and deputy director of messaging for former president Barack Obama, his screenplay was a part of The Black List back in 2022, which is a survey that is done annually of the most liked motion picture screenplays that had not yet been produced. The project started filming in Vancouver, Canada in May and subsequently wrapped filming in July! Although plot details were being kept under wraps, it's known that the film is set in a world where everyone must decide who they want to spend eternity with. Whilst there is no specific date for the release, Olsen herself confirmed in February in an interview with ExtraTV that it is set to release this year.
Update from the original post: Panic Carefully | Character Unknown
In more recent news in December, it was confirmed that Elizabeth Olsen is set to star alongside Oscar Winners Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) and Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) in Warner Brothers’ upcoming paranoid thriller Panic Carefully. It is directed and written by Sam Esmail (Leave the World Behind) as confirmed by Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter. The latest news heard regarding this upcoming project was that actor Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk) was in final negotiations to join the cast of the paranoid thriller as established by Deadline.
Although the plot and logline of the film are being kept under wraps it is said that this paranoid thriller is akin to Sam Esmail’s very own Mr. Robot along with Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. Production for the film is reportedly set to kick off this month (January) in England.
Update from the original post: Seven Sisters | Character Unknown
The latest news when it comes to Elizabeth Olsen is that just last night it was revealed by Deadline that Olsen is set to star in a new drama series called Seven Sisters for FX. The series is said to follow a tight-knit family that begins to unravel when a sister portrayed by Olsen starts communing with a voice that no one else can hear. The pilot is to be directed by Sean Durkin (The Iron Claw). This project reunites the pair after last working with each other nearly fifteen years ago on Martha Marcy May Marlene, which for the pair was both of their debuts, Olsen's film debut and Durkin’s feature directorial debut. Also attached is Will Arbery (Succession) who has written the pilot for the upcoming series. Sean Durkin, Will Arbery and Garrett Basch (What We Do in the Shadows) are all executive producers for the series. It is currently unknown when production for the series will start.
Love Child | Misty
Love Child is the much anticipated dark comedy by Todd Solondz. While this project has seemingly struggled to be developed over the past few years with cast members already being recast twice with the project initially starring Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez, which were then replaced by Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell, is the third time the charm? In February it was announced by Deadline the project now had Elizabeth Olsen and Charles Melton (May December) attached and set to star in the film.
The film follows Misty (Olsen) who is seemingly stuck in a loveless marriage, Junior her 11-year-old son takes a chance to reshape his mother’s love life when a handsome stranger Easy (Melton) appears mysteriously. Junior devises a plan to get rid of his father so Misty can marry Easy instead however it ends up leading to disastrous consequences.
It is still unknown when exactly production for this project will take place there were rumours for production start dates being spread but as for now, the project is currently still in pre-production. Olsen has also expressed her excitement to be working on this project with Todd Solondz, “I am a long-time fan of Todd’s work and to collaborate with him on this film is a true dream.”
Update from the original post: As brought to attention and confirmed by both writer and director of the project Todd Solondz and Elizabeth Olsen who was set to star in the upcoming film. The project has been postponed indefinitely due to struggles with getting financing. Solondz in a New York Times article stated “The movie died last night...” Unfortunately, it seems like the project had fallen apart the day before his cinematographer and production designer for the project were supposed to fly out to Spain for the film.
Ultimately Elizabeth Olsen reaffirmed this when she attended Vulture's recent Vulture Festival which occurred in November, she confirmed that the production of Love Child has been postponed indefinitely due to issues regarding funding and finance for the project. However, that has not deterred Elizabeth from giving up hope on the film completely, she declared at Vulture Festival “I’m not a producer on it, but I’ve never hustled more for a movie that’s having a hard time getting made...If you guys want to make a big, bold notice that says, Todd Solondz needs money to make a movie, that would be great.” Here's to hoping all her hard work and dedication for this project can help it come to fruition sometime in the future.
Rumoured Projects
While they are the only projects of Elizabeth Olsen’s that have been confirmed there have been rumours she’s attached to two other projects, one is a limited series which is set to be an adaptation of Charlotte McConaghy’s novel Once There Were Wolves for Apple. Garth Davis (FOE) is reportedly set to be the showrunner, director and lead writer alongside Alice Addison (Devil’s Playground). The small synopsis of the novel and potential future TV series is as follows, Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape but her twin Aggie too due to the traumatic events that occurred in Alaska. It is reportedly set to film in Scotland at the end of September this year.
The last project to which Olsen was rumoured to be attached to was a film adaptation of the short story by Mary South called The Age of Love reportedly Olsen was or still is who is to know currently was set to star alongside Stranger Things star and musician Joe Keery. Matthew Capodicasa was apparently the writer for the project, with Lance Oppenheim (Ren Faire, Spermworld) set to direct the film as was mentioned back in January 2023 in an article by Little Black Box about how he was developing projects with different actors and directors within the industry, Elizabeth Olsen was one of the people mentioned. Unfortunately, it was mentioned back in May in an article by Variety he had ended up leaving the project. Tragically it now seems the outcome of that project is left hanging in the air, unknowing if the development of the project will carry on with the two stars still attached or if it will sadly be a project now that will never see the light of day.
There are also some rumours around Olsen's return as Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Deadline has stated that there was a possibility for Olsen's return in the WandaVision spin-off Vision series starring Paul Bettany as Vision and James Spader as Ultron. The industry insider DanielRPK has also stated that Olsen would return for a Marvel project that is filming in 2025.
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