Margot Robbie, known not only as an actress but also as a producer through her company, LuckyChap Entertainment, has surprised the industry with a new project \u2013 a biopic about Alice Guy-Blach\u00e9, the first female director in film history. “The First Reel” has been greenlit by Sony Pictures and is already generating buzz at the 2025 Cannes Film Market.<\/p>\n
Robbie will not be playing the lead role, handing it over to Florence Pugh, whose name has become synonymous with strong female characters after “The Secret Scripture” and “Inception.” Robbie herself will be taking a role behind the scenes, emphasizing that her mission is not only to play heroines but also to create opportunities for others.<\/p>\n
The story of Alice Guy-Blach\u00e9 is almost forgotten: in 1896, she made the world’s first narrative film, beating Griffith and other “fathers of cinema.” However, her contribution was erased from the annals of history, and only in recent years have historians begun to redress the wrong.<\/p>\n
“The First Reel” will chronicle not only Guy-Blach\u00e9’s struggle for recognition but also her marriage, divorce, emigration to the United States, and the creation of her own studio, Solax\u2014one of the most successful in the 1910s. The screenplay was written by Emily Zuckerman, an Oscar winner for “Women’s Stories.”<\/p>\n
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Robbie said the idea for the film came to her while preparing for “Oppenheimer,” where she encountered the absence of women in narratives about scientific breakthroughs. “We forget that women have always been there\u2014they just weren’t given the microphone,” she said in an interview with Deadline.<\/p>\n
The project is supported by the Women in Film fund and received a grant from the British Film Institute. Filming is scheduled for fall 2025 in Paris and New York, using authentic locations and reconstructed early 20th-century soundstages.<\/p>\n
Critics are already calling the film a “potential 2026 Oscar contender,” particularly in the Best Original Screenplay and Best Director categories (director Greta Gerwig has been confirmed by the studio).<\/p>\n
This isn’t Robbie’s first bold project: she previously produced Harley Quinn: The Awesome Squad and Barbie, but “The First Reel” is her most ambitious foray into historical cinema.<\/p>\n
The film will also be part of LuckyChap’s broader initiative to create content about “forgotten women of history,” with biopics about the first female engineer, the first lesbian writer in the United States, and others in development.<\/p>\n
In a world still dominated by male-dominated narratives, “The First Reel” could become not just a film, but a manifesto. And Margot Robbie, as always, is at the forefront of change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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