to the New York Olivia Wilde, that will collaborate with Marvel Studios, we met her as an actress. She became very famous for playing Thirteen in that wonderful series that is House (David Shore, 2004-2012), but he has also played Alex Kelly in The OC (Josh Schwartz, 2003-2007), to the Jenny Reilly of The Donnelly brothers (Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, 2007), to Nicole in The next three days, to the Quorra of TRON: Legacy (Haggis, Joseph Kosinski, 2010), to Rachel Salas in In Time (Andrew Niccol, 2011) or the Suzy Miller of Rush.
But also, the blind date in Her (Ron Howard, Spike Jonze, 2013), the Devon Finestra of Vinyl (Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, Rich Cohen and Mick Jagger, 2016) or Kathy Scruggs in Richard Jewell (Clint Eastwood, 2019).
However, his artistic ambitions do not stop at acting, but he has become a filmmaker after directing the short Free Hugs (2011), a couple of video clips and, above all, his unexpectedly funny first film super nerds (2019), after which he has made another short film, wake-up (2020).
Spider-Woman for Olivia Wilde?
With his second feature film, Don’t Worry Darling (2022), pending to be released, and the third, perfect, in pre-production, it is known that Sony has decided to sign her to deal with a new Marvel movie. In other words, his project will be related to the adventures and characters of the Spider-Man comics. After Venom (Rubén Fleischer, 2018) and Venom: There Will Be Carnage (Andy Serkis, 2021), Morbius (Daniel Espinosa, 2022) and Kraven the Hunter (JD Chandor, 2023), it is speculated that Olivia Wilde will focus on Spider-Woman.
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But for now, it has these statements in Shut Up Evan, the podcsat by Evan Ross Katz: “We are seeing this incredible influx of female directors and storytellers taking over this genre, of the superhero space, and enrich it with their own perspective.” The worthy heiresses of the French Alice Guy Blaché or the American Lois Weber, saving the distances. “So not only can I tell this story as a director, but I can develop this story, and that’s what made it so amazing to me,” said Olivia Wilde.
Another director in the superhero cinema at the hands of Sony and Marvel
In this way it joins other colleagues of yours that have carved out a timely niche for themselves in commercial cinema and, more specifically, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. By order, Anna Boden with Captain Marvel (2019), Jac Schaeffer in WandaVision, Kari Skogland with Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Kate Herron in Loki, Cate Shortland with black widow, Chloe Zhao in Eternals and Amber Templemore-Finlayson and Katie Ellwood or Bert and Bertie with Hawk Eye (2021). Not forgetting her companions from the DC Extended Universe.
Patty Jenkins has been in charge of the two deliveries of wonder-woman (2017, 2020), and Cathy Yan, of Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) [2020]. Not surprisingly, major Hollywood studios accepted in 2019 the 4 Percent Challenge or 4 Percent Challenge, proposed by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative of the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, at the University of Los Angeles, and the Time’s Up movement, so that more women direct works for the big screen. And it is paying off.
“I’m honored to be among this wave of women coming forward and saying, ‘We’re not just going to step in and try to tell this story like men do, actually let’s reframe the stories themselves»”, Olivia Wilde continued. “And the industry, from what I can tell, is really supportive of that. There’s a sea change and it’s because of these decades of trailblazers demanding this over and over and over and finally breaking through, and I’m so lucky to be here for that.” Good for her, and for Sony and Marvel.