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Alethea Jones to Direct Paramount Musical “Big Gay Jamboree”

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Alethea Jones is teaming up Margot Robbie for her next feature. She’ll follow up 2017’s “Fun Mom Dinner” with “Big Gay Jamboree,” a period musical being produced by Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment for Paramount. Deadline confirmed the news.

Penned by Marla Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage and said to “be a mix between ‘Oklahama!’ and the ‘Book of Mormon,'” “Big Gay Jamboree” tells the story of a “young, raunchy woman who is transported into a 1940s musical and must find her way back home to present day.”

Robbie is not attached to star. The Oscar-nominated “I, Tonya” star and producer was last seen in “Mary Queen of Scots.”

Jones and Robbie are also set to collaborate on the live-action “Barbie,” with the former directing and the latter starring and producing.

Jones most recently helmed Catherine Zeta Jones-starrer “Queen America,” a Facebook Watch series about a pageant coach. “Lodge 49” and “American Woman” are among her other TV credits.

“In terms of female bonds, it is important for me as a filmmaker and as a woman to portray friendships between women that are not competitive,” Jones has said. “I am really sick of seeing that.”


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