Margot Robbie could be about to reunite with Brad Pitt for period Hollywood drama
Margot Robbie could be set to reunite with her Once Upon a Time in Hollywood co-star Brad Pitt in big budget Hollywood period drama Babylon, from La La Land director Damien Chazelle.
The actress is currently in talks to land the lead role after Emma Stone exited the project due to scheduling reasons, Deadline reports. The film would see Robbie and Oscar-winner Pitt revisiting a romanticised era of old school Hollywood in Chazelle's Babylon, after they both starred in Quentin Tarantino's love letter to the final moments of Tinseltown's golden age.
Babylon will be set in the 1920s, during "the shifting moment in Hollywood when the industry turned from silent film to talkies", the publication states.
Much like Once Upon a Time, it will feature the rise and fall of fictional and historical characters - Robbie starred as the late Sharon Tate in Tarantino's movie, Pitt played a stuntman loosely based on a real person, while lead star Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed a fictional fading TV actor.
Robbie would play Clara Bow, the early sex symbol and box office star who was Hollywood's first 'It' girl, The Hollywood Reporter adds. Pitt would play a fictional character, a silent film star who fails to adjust to new technology, who is said to be based on real-life actor - screenwriter and director John Gilbert.
Chazelle has reportedly penned a mammoth script of 180 pages, and would get a hefty budget in the $80 million to $100 million range (£60 million to £80 million).
Meanwhile, it was recently reported that Robbie will lead a female-fronted Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise for Disney, featuring all new characters on a fresh adventure.
The star is reuniting with Birds of Prey writer Christina Hodson for the film which will be a separate project from the reboot currently being devised by Pirates writer Ted Elliott and Chernobyl's award-winning creator Craig Mazin.
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