The Crown’s Claire Foy Is Ready to Become a Full- Blown Movie Star. It’s a fabulous time to be Claire Foy. Last year, the actress starred in the critically acclaimed, biographical Netflix series The Crown as Queen Elizabeth II in her youth. The actress has since prepped for the show’s second season, after which she’ll bow out of the show altogether. That’s because Season 3 jumps ahead in time, meaning its youthful core cast will have to wave goodbye.) But Foy, who won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the young royal, has a bounty of prospects ahead of her—and seems poised to exchange her TV success for some good old- fashioned Hollywood stardom.

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The actress is reportedly in talks to play Lisbeth Salander in the upcoming The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the latest installment- slash- soft reboot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, according to Variety. As a refresher: Lisbeth is a hardcore goth computer hacker with various piercings and tattoos and an asymmetrical haircut. Foy, meanwhile, was determined posh and English rose- y enough to play the most famous monarch of our time. Naturally, Foy doesn’t exactly scream Lisbeth’s aesthetic—but neither, really, did Rooney Mara back when she was cast in the Americanized version of Dragon Tattoo.

At the time, the actress was best- known for whittling Jesse Eisenberg down to size in The Social Network. In the Swedish versions of the films, Noomi Rapace played the anti- everyone, all- black- everything hacker. If Foy takes on the role, she had better prepare to bleach those eyebrows, buzz off some of that hair, and start picking out some waterproof black eyeliner. But wait, there’s more! Variety also reports that Foy might not take the role . Academy Award- winning director Damien Chazelle to co- star in his Neil Armstrong biopic First Man. Ryan Gosling is set to play the iconic astronaut in Chazelle’s big- screen follow- up to musical hit La La Land.

Foy, however, has not received an official offer for the role, leaving room for her to take on The Girl in the Spider’s Web after all. Fede Alvarez, who directed surprise horror hit Don’t Breathe last year, is set to helm the upcoming Salander project. Get Vanity Fair’s HWD Newsletter. Sign up for essential industry and award news from Hollywood. Full Screen. Photos: 1/7. The Stars of Netflix’s Royal Drama, The Crown.

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Claire Foy is photographed for her portrait as Queen Elizabeth II in full regalia, in what the Queen wore to her coronation ceremony in 1. Foy portrays a young but steadfast Elizabeth as she assumes the throne at the age of 2. Watch The Family Online Iflix. Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad. A car fit for a king!

Julian Broad captures a brooding Matt Smith (best known as Doctor Who) in his role as a youthful Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband. In preparation for the part, Smith gleaned inside information by talking to a former officer of the British royal household. Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad. Foy, whose performance as Ann Boleyn in Wolf Hall earned her a BAFTA nomination, is equally magnificent in her latest turn as Queen of England. Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad.

Vanessa Kirby plays Princess Margaret, the Queen’s late sister and her closest confidante. Kirby presents Margaret in a more vivacious and sultry light—a side of her character less exposed and commonly explored when depicting the royal sisters.

Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad. Smith cuts a dashing figure in Prince Philip’s ceremonial dress, complete with military medals. Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad. John Lithgow stars as the indomitable Winston Churchill, whose relationship with the Queen (almost 5. Lithgow trained for hours with a dialect coach in order to perfect his rendering of perhaps the 2. British orator. Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad.

The principal cast is photographed here on location at Lancaster House in London. Eileen Atkins and Victoria Hamilton star alongside Kirby, Foy, and Smith as Queen Mary (Elizabeth’s grandmother) and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad.

Brad Pitt’s Battle to Make World War Z: Inside the Drama, Re- writes, and Reshoots. The streets were slick with rain on April 1. Damon Lindelof climbed the winding road to Brad Pitt’s hillside estate, overlooking Los Angeles. The 4. 0- year- old Lindelof, a screenwriter and a creator of the hit show Lost, had been summoned by his agent to meet Pitt to talk about *World War Z—*the star’s film based on the 2.

Max Brooks novel—whose release later that year would be delayed. For months, Hollywood gossips had whispered about Pitt’s troubled zombie thriller. Key executives were fired.

The movie was over- budget. There were rumors that Pitt, who both produced and starred in the film, had stopped speaking to the director, Marc Forster.

Lindelof told his agent when he called, “I should see something, read a script.”“No, they just want to meet you cold,” the agent replied.“They” referred to Pitt and his colleagues from Plan B Entertainment, the actor’s 1. A week earlier Pitt’s respected right hand, Dede Gardner, had called Lindelof to give him a heads- up. Don’t be nervous or stressed out,” she said of meeting her boss.

The morning of the meeting Lindelof received an e- mail asking what kind of coffee he wanted from Starbucks. Arriving at about two P. M., he was escorted to Pitt’s office, a sparsely furnished room with large windows, four chairs, and a table overlooking a parking area and swaying trees. There, Pitt and a grande soy latte were waiting.“He took me through how excited he was when he read the book, what was exciting for him, the geopolitical aspect of it,” Lindelof said, recounting the meeting over tea at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica on a sunny Tuesday in January. He said Pitt explained, “ ‘But when we started working on the script, a lot of that stuff had to fall away for the story to come together.

We started shooting the thing before we locked down how it was going to end up, and it didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to.’“My sense of it was he was taking responsibility,” Lindelof went on. Pitt asked him to watch a recent edit.

The thing we really need right now is someone who is not burdened by all the history that this thing is inheriting, who can see what we’ve got and tell us how to get to where we need to get,” the actor said. Two weeks later, Lindelof was seated in Screening Room 5 on the Paramount lot, where he watched a 7. World War Z. The ending was abrupt, an incoherent montage of footage smashed together. But there was something else about the movie gnawing at him when the lights came up.

Where was the other 5. It’s a Zombie Movie”This year’s crop of big- budget blockbusters have seen more than their share of drama. Disney’s The Lone Ranger was shuttered in pre- production after the original budget soared to nearly $2. Johnny Depp and others to defer their fees. Ronin, starring Keanu Reeves as an outcast turned samurai, was delayed a year as its cost reportedly ballooned to $2. And who could forget last summer’s expensive mishaps, Disney’s $2.

John Carter and Universal’s $2. Battleship? But no movie has gotten more tongues wagging than World War Z, Brad Pitt’s first foray as the star and producer of his own potential franchise, which, one could argue, he has avoided in his career like a zombie plague. Since 2. 00. 6, when Paramount optioned the book for Plan B, four successive writers have been hired to overhaul the script, an experienced producer and an Oscar- winning visual- effects artist have left the project, and the filmmakers have shot and thrown out an expensive 1. Paramount admits to that amount, which means the real figure is probably higher—sources from rival studios say that the actual number is more like $2. Paramount’s misfortune, gloat that the budget is closer to $2. Paramount denies both of these higher estimates.) World War Z will hit theaters this month, six months later than expected.

If Paramount and Pitt are lucky, the studio and its financial partners will earn back the movie’s costs plus more. If not, Paramount will go down as having made the most overpriced zombie movie in Hollywood history. Though the impetus to make World War Z reflects the economics of today’s Hollywood, where studios rely on a predictable stream of franchises based on either well- known characters or proven brands anchored by a movie star with international appeal, everyone involved in the movie had a different motivation for making it. Paramount has lost lucrative business partnerships with Dream. Works and its sibling, Dream. Works Animation, as well as Marvel Entertainment—although it retains distribution rights to four Marvel movies, the first two Iron Man movies, Captain America, and Thor—which means the studio needs to create new franchises. The Walt Disney Company bought Marvel in 2.

Marc Forster, whose artistic temperament seems best suited to contained emotional dramas like Stranger than Fiction and Finding Neverland, hopes to rebuild his action- movie cred after being skewered by critics for the James Bond sequel Quantum of Solace. The Wall Street Journal called Quantum of Solace a “model of mediocrity.” Slate wrote that Forster had “no feel for action sequences.”)Bearing the weight of their expectations is Pitt, who has undeniable global appeal despite an acting career comprising as many admirable misses as hits. He’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, but he’s never won. More recent outings, including Killing Them Softly, The Tree of Life, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, have failed to entice moviegoers in large numbers, who instead swoon whenever Pitt plays a masculine hero like Achilles in Troy or John Smith in Mr. Mrs. Smith, or delight in his devilish charm in ensemble films, such as the Ocean’s franchise and Inglourious Basterds. His career as a producer is less distinguished.

Plan B is known mostly for producing small, moody dramas (Killing Them Softly among them) directed by eclectic filmmakers. At Paramount, Plan B had never attempted anything as big as World War Z. Dede Gardner, president of Plan B since 2. Paramount executive, defended Pitt and their company, saying, “He produced Eat Pray Love with me, which was a pretty big movie.” That said, creating a special- effects- driven action blockbuster with the scope and size of World War Z demands a different set of skills than those needed for an emotional travelogue starring Julia Roberts.