A few weeks ago, reports that Barbie and Harley Quinn actress Margot Robbie was in talks to produce and star in director Tim Burton's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, courtesy of The Insneider.
That rumor has proven true, as Variety has confirmed the news.
The other significant update from Variety is that screenwriter Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects), who wrote an early draft of the film, is no longer involved. That script has been tossed and the studio is currently looking for a new writer.
Variety adds that who gets hired to pen the script and what the final product looks like will determine whether Robbie stars or only produces.
Though Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) was produced with a minimal budget, it’s gone on to earn cult classic status, largely due to its iconic visuals and the many parodies it sparked over the decades.
Beneath its kitschy sci-fi surface, the film has since been reexamined as a bold commentary on 1950s gender norms, praised for its depiction of female anger and empowerment in an era that rarely gave women that kind of agency on screen.
Tim Burton was first revealed as the director of a planned Attack of the 50 Foot Woman remake in 2024.
With Margot Robbie attached, fresh off her massive success with Barbie, the reboot instantly gains a ton of traction and should spark major interest from the general movie-going audience.
The original 1958 film was a low-budget B-movie, reportedly made for just $88,000. It starred Allison Hayes as a wealthy but troubled heiress whose brush with an alien spacecraft causes her to grow to enormous size. What follows is a blend of sci-fi spectacle and domestic drama, as her transformation turns her into a literal giant in a world that already saw her emotions and ambitions as too big.
The film’s monstrous twist plays out against the backdrop of a crumbling marriage, complicated by a cheating husband and 1950s expectations that demanded women remain calm, composed, and housebound.
Stay tuned to SFFGazette for future updates as we track this project's continued development.