“Someone Great” writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson is teaming up with a recent Oscar winner on a high-profile project. Variety reports that the “Sweet/Vicious” creator has been enlisted to work on the script for Taika Waititi’s “Thor: Love and Thunder.” Waititi just scored the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar — which he dedicated to “all the indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories” — for Nazi satire “Jojo Rabbit” at Sunday’s ceremony.
Robinson has reportedly been asked to join Waititi “to work on the script prior to its production start date later this year.”
At Comic-Con 2020 Waititi revealed that the latest installment of the franchise will see Natalie Portman returning, and playing Lady Thor. The Oscar-winning “Black Swan” actress appeared in 2011’s “Thor” and 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World” but not 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok.”
Gina Rodriguez-starrer “Someone Great” dropped on Netflix last year. Asked how she responds to questions about why the women in the movie drink and do drugs, Robinson said, “It’s institutionalized sexism and the patriarchy. Women are told to be ‘good girls,’ and the dynamic is ‘boys will be boys, boys can have fun,’ and women are supposed to be a certain version of themselves. When we see women on screen who are a little outside that box, you get eyebrows raised, and you get people upset about that,” she observed. “It’s not just men [who are upset by that], it’s women, too. There’s so much scrutiny that women get to be likeable, and I was just like — no. Fuck that. It’s not even women behaving badly, it’s women being like people. They’re just living their lives. Most people have a day where they let it all hang out.”
Robinson emphasized, “For me, when I get those questions and I hear those things, I just know it’s sexism. I don’t know if it’s even the person asking the question’s fault, because I know how ingrained the sexism is from all the things they’ve seen and know and have been taught for years and years.”
In an interview with us Robinson identified Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Awkwafina, Tina Fey, and Natasha Rothwell as some of her dream collaborators.
Marvel’s long-awaited “Black Widow” standalone film hits theaters May 1. Cate Shortland directed the Scarlett Johansson-starrer, marking the first time a woman has directed a Marvel feature solo. Anna Boden co-directed “Captain Marvel” with Ryan Fleck. The Brie Larson-led origin story was one of 2019’s highest-grossing films, and took in over $426 million domestically.
