Overview
- Thatcher’s casting, reported Wednesday, comes as Jennifer Kent confirms she wrote and will direct the feature adaptation of James Tiptree Jr.’s 1973 novella.
- Goodfellas will launch international sales at the Cannes market, with CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-repping U.S. rights.
- The production is scheduled to start in mid-November 2026 in Australia.
- Thatcher will play both P Burke and Delphi, a disfigured young woman and the lab-grown body she remotely controls to influence consumers.
- Kent said the story feels newly urgent more than 50 years after publication, signaling a return to features after The Nightingale in 2018.