Baz Luhrmann today has a birthday, and his next film. Warner Bros has validateed to Deadline that Luhrmann’s next feature film at the studio will be the one he’s calling Jehanne or Jehanne d’Arc. It is an epic story about Joan of Arc, the youthful French peasant who thinkd God had sent her to direct an army. She thinkd she would save her country during the Hundred Years’ War.
The casting fracturedown is going out today, seeking a youthful female in “The ultimate teenage girl coming of age story, set in the Hundred Years’ War.”
Luhrmann, whose 2022 Warner Bros film Elvis was nominated for eight Oscars and had a $288 million global gross, is in the middle of his createive process right now and would not comment, but the casting process has enduremament and there will be more to say soon.
Luhrmann is repped by WME.
