As an alternative of being part of the Avengers: Doomsday forged this yr, Elizabeth Olsen is as a substitute going to be performing some work on the small display screen – particularly starring within the new FX pilot Seven Sisters, which sounds fascinating based mostly on the official plot description. Clearly, many individuals are going to be unhappy to not see the actress reprising her position as Wanda Maximoff a.okay.a. Scarlet Witch, however for what it is price, she goes to be teaming up with one other distinctive expertise beloved for her work within the superhero style: The Penguin‘s Cristin Milioti.
In late 2024, Milioti completely wowed TV viewers together with her flip Sofia Gigante on Colin Farrell’s The Batman spinoff sequence, and he or she is now set to collaborate with one other gifted star in Elizabeth Olsen. Deadline is reporting that each are actually signed on to star in Seven Sisters, and they’ll apparently be enjoying siblings (not precisely an enormous shocker given the title of the potential present).
The pilot, written by playwright Will Arbery and set to be directed by Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy Could Marlene), will middle on a detailed household that hits some severe turbulence when Elizabeth Olsen’s character begins listening to and speaking to somebody that no one else can see or hear. Per the commerce description, this hassle leads the household to “confront long-buried secrets and techniques.” Garrett Basch, who has a protracted historical past with FX having produced Devs, Reservation Canines and What We Do In The Shadows, can be a key a part of the manufacturing.
Whereas Cristin Milioti has finished some nice work on the massive display screen, her credit together with the time loop comedy Palm Springs and The Wolf Of Wall Road, a few of her most memorable turns have been on tv. She memorably performed the titular character within the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mom, had a key position within the second season of Fargo, and stared in probably the greatest ever episodes of Black Mirror (“USS Callister). She earned rave opinions for her activate The Penguin enjoying the present’s principal antagonist, and there are excessive hopes amongst followers that she’s going to get the chance to reprise the position in both director Matt Reeves’ The Batman Half II or a theoretical second season of the HBO present.
Cristin Milioti’s different upcoming work consists of the animated movie In Your Goals, an upcoming Netflix characteristic set to be launched this fall, and she’s going to apparently be in two episodes of the forthcoming Black Mirror Season 7 (which features a sequel to the aforementioned “USS Callister” referred to as “USS Callister: Into Infinity.”)
Hopefully we’ll get extra casting information about Seven Sisters quickly (presumably there are not less than 5 extra siblings to forged), and we will maintain our fingers cross that they’re all the excessive caliber of Elizabeth Olsen and Cristin Milioti.