EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega is in final talks, we hear, to join JJ Abrams‘ secret untitled movie at Warner Bros.
The Wednesday and Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice superstar will star opposite Glen Powell, who is also finalizing his deal. Few details are known about the movie, other than it’s not a time travel movie.
Abrams wrote the script and his Bad Robot is producing. That’s quite the blockbuster pair: Powell post Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You is seeing his latest summer movie Twisters barrel past $200M stateside, $275M WW, while Ortega can get credit for having the latest Scream VI notch its best domestic opening ever at $44.4M and best stateside take for the franchise at $108.1M.
Among all Scream movies on a global basis, Scream VI is the third highest grossing in the horror series (as previously reported, Ortega is not attached to the next sequel).
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