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Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood team up for very exciting Thelma & Louise musical adaptation-Emily Bashforth-Entertainment – Metro
We are very intrigued…
Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood are thought to be workshopping as we speak (Picture: Getty)
Fans have been speculating that Amanda Seyfried is on set for a third Mamma Mia! movie after her absence from Tuesday’s Golden Globes due to being ‘deep in the process of creating a new musical.’
Alas, she isn’t on set belting out Abba tunes, but she has been working on another musical, confirmed to be an adaptation of Thelma & Louise.
What’s more, the actress has been joined by Evan Rachel Wood, 35, for the gig, with insiders confirming workshops are underway.
A musical adaptation of 1991’s Thelma & Louise has supposedly been in the works since at least 2021, with the film’s screenwriter, Callie Khouri, attached and writing the book with Haley Feiffer.
According to Variety, indie singer songwriter Neko Case is creating the soundtrack, and Scott Delman serves as the producer.
The original Thelma & Louise drama/adventure flick starred Geena Davis as housewife Thelma and Susan Sarandon as waitress Louise, two pals who head out on a brief fishing trip.
The original Thelma & Louise starred Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon (Picture: Moviestore/Shutterstock)
However, Louise kills a man who endeavours to rape Thelma at a bar, leading to them fleeing to Mexico.
While details of the musical’s plot are being kept firmly under wraps, and it’s not yet known which role Amanda, 37, will take on, there’s certainly a lot of buzz surrounding the project.
The Dropout star – who won a Golden Globe for best performance by an actress in a limited series this week – has also played coy.
Amanda confirmed she’s been in New York for a new musical, after missing the Golden Globes (Picure: Trae Patton/NBC via Getty Images)
Taking to Instagram after being unable to collect her coveted gong in person, the Jennifer’s Body star expressed her thanks as she teased her upcoming gig.
‘I am in New York,’ she confirmed to her 5.6million followers.
Amanda added: ‘I was on FaceTime with my Dropout team, my wonderful Dropout team who are the reason I got this award. It is a true honour to have been a part of that.
‘I had to miss it because I am doing something that is magic and it’s musical. So I’m finally getting to do something that I’ve never really done.’
The Mamma Mia! star has definitely got pipes, proven in her past two outings in the Abba flicks (Picture: UNIVERSAL PICTURES/AP)
‘That’s all I can really say about it. Hopefully more soon,’ she teased, adding that it’s been ‘a lot of work’ but ‘more fun.’
‘So in lieu of any acceptance speech I’m just going to say thanks to all my Dropout family and my family,’ she concluded.
Of course, we know Amanda has pipes thanks to her stellar vocal performances in the first two Mamma Mia! movies, with her singing on hits such as One Of Us, Lay All Your Love On Me, and Our Last Summer, so we have no doubt she’ll deliver in Thelma & Louise.
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Meanwhile, co-star Evan also has plenty of experience with singing.
The star has performed in the Beatles-themed musical Across the Universe, and also sang as the mother of Anna and Elsa in Frozen 2.
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