Jenna Ortega and Glen Powell will team up for a currently untitled film by the director of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
As per Deadline, the pair have joined the secret – and currently untitled – project from JJ Abrams, who also directed Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as well as entries in the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible franchises.
With the project currently without a title, details are understandably scarce, but the report notes that the project, which is also being written and produced by Abrams, does not include any elements of time travel.
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Ortega, who will soon be seen in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, shot to fame with her roles in You, Scream and Wednesday, with the latter seeing the actor play the iconic character of Wednesday Addams in the prequel to The Addams Family.
The Netflix show will return next year with its second season, with Ortega sharing back in May that production was underway in Ireland. She also commented on the additions to the cast, which has seen Billie Piper and Steve Buscemi join the roster.
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Powell, who had previously had roles in Scream Queens and Everybody Wants Some!!, has shot to wider fame in the last couple of years with parts in Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, Hit Man and, most recently, Twisters, a standalone sequel to 1996’s Twister.
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The film, which has been directed by Lee Isaac Chung, follows a new group of storm chasers in Oklahoma as they investigate a series of tornadoes, with Powell joined in the cast by Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney and Sasha Lane.
Powell, who played Lieutenant Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin in Top Gun: Maverick, recently provided an update on the proposed third film in the franchise, sharing that he had a start date for production on the action film.
Wednesday streams on Netflix, while Twisters is in cinemas now.
Reporter, Digital Spy George is a freelance writer who specialises in Movies and TV. After graduating with a degree in Film Studies and Journalism from De Montfort University, in which he analysed the early works of Richard Linklater for his dissertation, he wrote for several websites for GRV Media. His film tastes vary from blockbusters like Mission: Impossible and John Wick to international directors such as Paolo Sorrentino and Hirokazu Kore-eda, and has attended both the London and Berlin film festivals.
