Jenna Ortega In Talks To Board J.J. Abrams’ Secret Glen Powell Movie At Warner Bros – The Dish

EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Ortega is in final talks, we hear, to join JJ Abrams‘ secret untitled movie at Warner Bros.

The Wednesday and Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice superstar will star opposite Glen Powell, who is also finalizing his deal.

Few details are known about the movie, other than it’s not a time travel movie. Abrams wrote the script and his Bad Robot is producing.

That’s quite the blockbuster pair: Powell post Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You is seeing his latest summer movie Twisters barrel past $200M stateside, $275M WW, while Ortega can get credit for having the latest Scream VI notch its best domestic opening ever at $44.4M and best stateside take for the franchise at $108.1M. Among all Scream movies on a global basis, Scream VI is the third highest grossing in the horror series (as previously reported, Ortega is not attached to the next sequel).

The summer box office momentum the industry is relishing will not cease once Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice opens in the post Labor Day corridor, the current expectation for the Tim Burton-directed sequel, which also stars original cast Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, is heading toward a $75M-$84M opening per long lead tracking. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice is set to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The Ortega starring Wednesday is the most watched series ever in the history of Netflix with 252.1M global views.

Bad Robot and Warner Bros did not return request for comment.

Ortega is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer Mandelbaum Morris Bernstein Trattner Auerbach Hynick Jaime LeVine Sample & Klein.