Kristen Stewart and Lupita Nyong’o may be stepping in front of the camera for Elizabeth Banks. The actresses are being eyed to star in Banks’ upcoming reboot of “Charlie’s Angels,” Variety reports. Casting is currently underway, and Sony is reportedly interested in several big names for the film, including Stewart and Nyong’o, but nothing is confirmed yet.
Scheduled for a 2019 release, the potential franchise would see Stewart and Nyong’o playing members of a private detective agency hired by an enigmatic millionaire. Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Farrah Fawcett are among the actresses who have previously portrayed Angels in film and TV iterations of the story.
After reaching international stardom for her role as Bella Swan in the “Twilight” franchise, Stewart has mostly acted in indies, including “Still Alice” and “The Clouds of Sils Maria,” the latter of which won her a César, France’s equivalent to an Oscar. As the source notes, she hasn’t toplined a major studio tentpole film since 2010’s “Snow White and the Hunstman.” She has, however, signed on to headline “Underwater,” an upcoming blockbuster adventure thriller from Twentieth Century Fox.
Nyong’o won an Oscar in 2014 for “12 Years a Slave.” Her credits include “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Mira Nair’s “Queen of Katwe,” and Marvel’s upcoming “Black Panther.”
Banks made her directorial debut with 2015’s “Pitch Perfect 2,” in which she also starred. The comedy about a misfit college a cappella team earned more than $287 million worldwide.
