It’s been months since the last update on Elizabeth Banks’ silver screen reboot of Charlie’s Angels, but today Variety has broken the silence and revealed the first bit of potential casting information. According to the outlet, Sony is eyeing Twilight star Kristen Stewart to play a member of the titular crime-fighting private detective trio.
The studio is also interested in a number of other names, including Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, whose involvement with the project sounds slightly less concrete than Stewart’s at the time.
Charlie’s Angels began as a series, which ran on ABC for five seasons from 1976 to 1981 and originally starred Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Farrah Fawcett (Fawcett and Jackson eventually left the cast and were replaced by Cheryl Ladd, Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts). Since then, the show has been rebooted a few times, most famously in the early 2000s in the form of two McG-directed movies starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu, but also in 2011 with a short-lived series starring Annie Ilonzeh, Minka Kelly and Rachael Taylor.
Stewart has stayed busy in the film industry since The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, the movie franchise’s swan song, but has gone for more non-traditional and low-profile roles. In the world of indie cinema, she’s earned acclaim for her subtle but memorable turns in Clouds of Sils Maria, Still Alice, Certain Women and Personal Shopper.
After winning her Oscar for 12 Years a Slave, Nyong’o’s career has been on a much different path than Stewart’s. The actress has voiced characters in two of the highest grossing films of the 21st century, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and The Jungle Book; she’ll be continuing her partnership with Disney with next year’s Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War.
Banks will also produce the reboot with Elizabeth Cantillon and Max Handelman, which Sony has “franchise hopes for.” Charlie’s Angels is due out on June 7th, 2019.
Originally published September 29, 2017. Updated April 18, 2018.
