From one fictional angle, it’s an unexpected superhero team-up: Huntress and America Chavez, together, in space! Birds of Prey‘s Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Xochitl Gomez, from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (above), are set to star in Ursa Major, a science fiction film from brother directors Jonathan and Josh Baker (Kin).
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As The Hollywood Reporter explains, “Winstead and Gomez will play Charlie and Natalie, mother and daughter fighting for survival on an Earth-like planet, hiding from a group of relentless hunters with the added threat of an imminent and deadly storm approaches. But Natalie, now a teenager, has begun to question her mother’s decisions, her explanation of who there are, how they got here and what they need to do to survive.”
There are a lot of familiar elements here—deadly space storms, suspicious teenagers, “relentless” hunters (are there any other kind?)—but the casting keeps this one sounding intriguing, as does the story’s source. Ursa Major was co-written by novelist-turned-TV-creator Patrick Somerville (Maniac, Station Eleven), Katie French (who worked on Station Eleven and Mr. Robot), and Colleen O’Brien. Somerville and David Eisenberg’s production company, Tractor Beam, will produce the movie.
Gomez was one of the best things about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Winstead has almost never made an uninteresting career choice, from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World to Fargo. Between this and Ahsoka, she’s going to space at least twice in the next few years.
No release date has been announced for Ursa Major.
