After months of speculation, director and actress Elizabeth Banks has found her three leads for the Charlie’s Angels reboot. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska have been cast as the crime-fighting trio while Banks, who is also helming the project, will be playing Bosley.
Jay Basu and Banks wrote the script based on earlier drafts by Craig Mazin and Semi Chellas. The film will now be released September 27, 2019, moving from its original June 7 date. The film will follow a new generation of Angels working for the mysterious Charlie. Since the original films (starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu) based on the 1970s TV series, The Townsend Agency has grown considerably and gone global, providing security and intelligence services to a variety of private clients with offices and highly trained teams worldwide. This film focuses on one of those teams.
Based on the original 1976-1981 series that starred Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith, Charlie’s Angels first hit the big screen in 2000, with Diaz, Barrymore, and Liu starring as elite private investigators working at a private detective agency for the mysterious, unseen Charlie Townsend. The film went on to make $264 million at the box office and was followed by the 2003 sequel Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, which pulled in $259M worldwide.
This marks Stewart’s return to big-budget fare after taking on smaller films since the end of The Twilight Saga. Scott, an actress, and musician had her breakout role starring in 2017’s Power Rangers, which also starred Banks, and will get an even bigger breakout opportunity in her next starring gig, playing Jasmine in Dinsey’s upcoming live-action film Aladdin. Balinska’s credits include ITV’s Midsomer Murders, and The Athena, a 26-part series teen drama series for European pay-TV operator Sky.
