Elizabeth Olsen cast as a rookie FBI agent in a film from Sicario scribe
In case you missed it, Elizabeth Olsen was back in LA on Monday night and she attended the premiere of Hail Caesar. I can’t find any photos of her walking the red carpet, but there were photos of Olsen ducking into the theater – go here to see. It looks like she went with Sam Taylor Johnson and Aaron Taylor Johnson. Aaron and Lizzie played brother and sister in The Avengers: Age of Ultron. Maybe they became close friends? The point is that she’s not currently in Australia, where Tom Hiddleston is filming Kong: Skull Island. But she has been to visit him on set, so I think they’re still together.
Meanwhile, Olsen has scored a new role and it sounds… odd.
Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen have been set to star in Wind River, a drama written by Sicario scribe Taylor Sheridan, who also is on board to make his feature directorial debut. Sicario producer Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road is producing this one with Peter Berg and Matthew George.
The pic, which begins shooting in March in Park City, centers on Cory (Renner), who works for the Fish and Game Department as a hunter of coyotes and other predators. Suffering after the death of his teenage daughter, he stumbles upon the raped body of a teenage girl frozen in the desolate wilderness. A rookie FBI agent (Olsen) who is unfamiliar with the terrain and weather enlists Cory to help her find those responsible.
As I mentioned last week, I watched Sicario during the Snowpacalypse, and I also watched Avengers: Age of Ultron (for the first time, sorry not sorry). I was pleasantly surprised that I didn’t hate Olsen as the Scarlett Witch, and I thought she did a decent job playing that kind of comic-book role. She’s usually doing these more off-beat indie roles, so it’s good to know she has some range. I liked-but-didn’t-love Sicario – it reminded me a lot of True Detective Season 1, and I thought the script was sort of overrated. Sicario was also dark as hell (dark subject matter), and I don’t know… I’m not really feeling Olsen’s casting here. Renner on the other hand? He might be a douche in real life, but he’ll do well in this.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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