Just take a second to wrap your head around this odd stack of people: Margot Robbie (Barbie herself), Olivia Wilde (the director of Booksmart), and Simon Kinberg (co-creator of Star Wars Rebels and the writer of not one but two messy X-Men/Dark Phoenix films) are at work on an adaptation of the comic book Avengelyne, created by Rob Liefeld.
If you are familiar with Liefeld’s work, you either already know Avengelyne or you have a pretty good idea what she looks like. Liefeld, of course, is responsible for (among other things) that infamous image of Captain America where it looks like someone inflated his pecs.
The character is a fallen angel—one with impossible proportions and very small outfits, naturally—who, having been cast out of Heaven, fights demons here on Earth. This is at least the third time someone has tried to get an adaptation off the ground. (Get it? Angels have wings? I’ll see myself out.) Gina Carano was once attached to star, and in 2016 Paramount was planning a movie version directed by Akiva Goldsman.
This new crack at an Avengelyne movie will have Wilde as director, with Kinberg and Robbie (with her company LuckyChap) producing. Variety doesn’t say anything who might be writing the film, and it does not have a studio or streamer behind it—yet.
As for a star, that too is unknown. I just hope for her sake that her outfits get a… let’s just call it a modern update.
