2013’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” marked Margot Robbie’s breakout role. Now the “I, Tonya” star and producer is returning to the infamous business hub, but this time, she’ll be working behind the scenes, and telling a very different story. Deadline reports that Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment has inked a two-year first-look deal with Warner Bros. Television, and the company has sold its first project under the pact — a female-led Wall Street drama. NBC snagged “Shattered Glass,” and Robbie is among the project’s executive producers.
Described as “House of Cards” meets “Revenge,” the series is created and written by Kat Blasband Page. “It is an empowering post-feminist revenge fantasy set in the world of Wall Street in which a trio of modern women come together to shatter their respective glass ceilings, taking no prisoners along the way,” the source summarizes. Patti Carr (“Beauty and the Beast,” “Private Practice”) will serve as showrunner.
LuckyChap also recently sold “Dollface,” another woman-created series with a female lead. The Kat Dennings-starrer landed at Hulu, and follows a woman who gets dumped by her boyfriend and tries to reconnect with her female friends. Creator Jordan Weiss is set to write and EP the series, and Stephanie Laing (“Veep”) will direct the pilot and is also producing.
“We are so excited by this new relationship with Warner Brothers Television,” LuckyChap Principles Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara said in a joint statement. “It has come after a great year for LuckyChap in which we have gradually been building a television slate overseen by our executive Brett Hedblom. We continue to strive to tell female stories in both Film and TV, and are immensely proud that our first two shows are created by, written by, and starring women.”
Robbie recently spoke about wanting to collaborate with more women. “I already work with a ton of female writers who are brilliant, and I want to work with female directors,” she explained. “I really want to work with actresses my own age. I’m trying so hard to get projects up and running with an ensemble of young female characters, because that’s my life, my group of girls, we’re a gang and we roll together and I’m like: ‘Why is that not reflected in film?’”
The “Suicide Squad” actress is nominated for two Golden Globes for Tonya Harding biopic “I, Tonya,” which is in theaters now. LuckyChap produced the dark comedy about the figure skater, so Robbie is up for both Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy and Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.
