{"id":355731,"date":"2026-03-20T07:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355731\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:27:10","slug":"sofia-coppola-kirsten-dunst-movie-scrapped-actress-joins-minecraft-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355731\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Coppola-Kirsten Dunst Movie Scrapped; Actress Joins Minecraft 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFans who were hoping for another cinematic collaboration between Kirsten Dunst<\/a> and Sofia Coppola<\/a> may have to console themselves with some cake for the time being. <\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola told Elle<\/a> in a profile published online Wednesday that a project in which Dunst was intending to star, with a planned shoot eyed for later this year, would no longer move forward. Specifics had been limited on the movie, including the title, plot details and a studio or producers, but Dunst had previously described the project as a period film that would center on a real-life historic figure. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Coppola, the film\u2019s tone made it a tough choice for this current cultural moment. \u201cIt felt too sad,\u201d she explained to Elle about the scrapped movie. \u201cIt\u2019s confusing in these dark times. I want to offer some hope and beauty in the world, but then you also don\u2019t want to do something shallow, because it feels like a time for deep things.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the press circuit to promote last year\u2019s Roofman, Dunst told Town & Country<\/a> that Coppola had penned a new script for the actress, with the project aiming to begin production in 2026. During an interview with Vogue<\/a>, the Power of the Dog star added that the film would be a period piece and would shoot in the U.S. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked whether she would be playing a real-life person, Dunst replied, \u201cYes, but not someone who I\u2019d consider famous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCoppola previously directed Dunst in The Virgin Suicides (1999), Marie Antoinette<\/a> (2006) and The Beguiled<\/a> (2017). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe filmmaker, whose recent credits include the 2023 Priscilla Presley biopic Priscilla and the new Marc Jacobs-focused documentary Marc by Sofia, told Elle that she does not yet have a new project in mind as her next work. She had previously been developing a series for Apple TV+ based on Edith Wharton\u2019s Custom of the Country, but with Sydney Sweeney attached to a feature adaptation<\/a>, Coppola\u2019s version is no longer in the works. <\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, news broke earlier Thursday that Dunst is set to appear in Warner Bros.\u2019 forthcoming sequel to A Minecraft Movie<\/a>. She had told Town & Country in last year\u2019s interview that she hoped to appear in the franchise\u2019s second film and reasoned, \u201cMaybe I can just make a movie where I don\u2019t lose money?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans who were hoping for another cinematic collaboration between Kirsten Dunst and Sofia Coppola may have to console…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[111204,321,93,61,60,5673,64279,14241,161512],"class_list":["post-355731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-a-minecraft-movie","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsten-dunst","tag-marie-antoinette","tag-sofia-coppola","tag-the-beguiled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}