Sundance ‘It’ Girl Brit Marling Pursued By Robert Redford, Tom Cruise & Steven Soderbergh
Two actresses broke out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival in a big way: Elizabeth Olsen (thanks toMartha Marcy May MarleneandSilent House) andBrit Marling, who starred in and co-wroteAnother EarthandThe Sound of My Voice. Elizabeth Olsen has four films in various stages of completion (Red Lights;Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding;Liberal Arts; andVery Good Girls) while Brit Marling has shot a role inArbitrageandflirted withBreaking the Girl.
And while the actress is looking to makeThe East, about “an FBI agent who infiltrates an ecoterrorist group,” which she co-wrote withThe Sound of My VoicedirectorZal Batmanglij, there is a queue of big-time directors reportedly courting Marling for their upcoming projects.
Vulturepasses along word thatSteven Soderbergh,Robert RedfordandChristopher McQuarrieall want Brit Marling for their films.
She has reportedly already passed onMagic Mike, the film Steven Soderbergh will soon make based onChanning Tatum’s early career days as a male stripper. But she’s said to be more interested in Robert Redford’sThe Company You Keep, which shoots this fall with Redford andShia LaBeoufin thestarring rolesas an aging former political militant and the young reporter who reveals the elder’s identity.
And then there isOne Shot, which Christopher McQuarriewrote and will directbased onLee Child’s thriller of the same name. While I’m still working to acceptTom Cruiseas the story’s lead character, I think Brit Marling would be tremendous as Helen Rodin, the attorney who is drawn into a web of lies after a sniper guns down several people on a downtown midwest sidewalk.
Now, this is all tentative stuff — it’s an offer story, only without full evidence of the offers being out there. So this is effectively rumor material for now. But if she lands inOne Shot, I’d be quite happy with the situation.
