Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow, Simon Kinberg, and More Team For Adventure Film POWERHOUSE
I've never heard of indie filmmaker Emily Carmichael until today, but I have a feeling I'm going to be hearing about her a lot more in the years to come. THR reports that Hollywood heavy hitters Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) are teaming with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment to produce a new family adventure movie called Powerhouse, which Carmichael will write and direct. The plot is being kept under wraps from the press, but the original idea for the film came from Trevorrow, and after he saw a short film Carmichael made called The Hunter and The Swan Discuss Their Meeting, he called her to the set of his current movie and they worked out the characters that will appear in this new movie.
“Emily Carmichael is the next great writer-director of the kind of movies I love,” said Trevorrow. "Her ability to find warmth and humanity in genre storytelling is a superpower in itself.”
Here are some of the young director's bona fides, according to THR:
Carmichael demonstrated her artistic versatility by having short stories and essays be part of the best-selling book Ophelia Speaks and created the comic strip Whiz Kids for the Harvard Crimson. But it’s her video game and geek-tinged works such as the animated web series The Adventures of Ledo and Ix and the animated short RPG OKC that got Hollywood’s attention. Her name has even surfaced as a possible contender to direct Marvel’s Captain Marvel.
I hope you didn't skim that last sentence, but just in case you did, it said Carmichael could be the one to direct Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel movie. If you weren't hooked before, maybe that piqued your interest. While we wait to find out more details about Powerhouse, check out some of the director's short films below and visit her production company's website for more: