Margot Robbie’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey will get a 2025 release date, placing the film in competitors with Marvel’s Thunderbolts.

After banking over one billion {dollars} at the field workplace with Greta Gerwig’s joyous Barbie film, Margot Robbie is able to embark on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey in 2025. The Kogonada-directed (After Yang, Pachinko) drama opens on May 9, 2025, throughout Mother’s Day weekend. The newly-announced release date finds A Big Bold Beautiful Journey arriving in theaters one week after the theatrical debut of Marvel Studios‘ Thunderbolts*, which hits cinemas on May 2, 2025. Some could say it’s a daring transfer to go toe-to-toe with one of Marvel’s motion blockbusters, particularly after the overwhelming success of the studio’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which has banked over one billion at the field workplace.

Kogonada directs A Big Bold Beautiful Journey from a script by Seth Reiss. The film reportedly focuses on two strangers and the way their paths align unexpectedly. Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Hamish Linklater be part of the solid alongside Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell.

The release date for Robbie’s female-focused film challenge comes as Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us clears $100 million at the field workplace on a $25 million price range. Before Margot Robbie signed on for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, the actress mentioned she was contemplating taking a brief break from performing out of worry that individuals would get sick of her.

“This is the longest I haven’t acted on a set because we finished Barbie in October of 2022,” Robbie revealed. “So, it’s already been more than a year since I was on set as an actor, and other than Covid, that’s the first time that’s ever happened.” Robbie advised Deadline in January. It would appear that sufficient time has ticked by for Robbie to get again in entrance of the cameras, and with Colin Farrell as her co-star, it’s shaping as much as be one hell of a return.

I can’t think about a world the place I’d get sick of seeing Margot Robbie. She’s popped up in lots of movies over the previous few years, however she’s all the time a pleasure to look at. Whether she’s bashing in the skulls of kid killers in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad or giving the world an influence pink wake-up name in Barbie, she brings a novel vitality to any challenge she’s part of. I say let her prepare dinner!

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Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He began with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, earlier than launching the companion YouTube sequence Animation Movies Revisited. He’s additionally the host of the Talking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio present specializing in comedian books, film, music, and extra. You’ll hardly ever catch him with out headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.