{"id":519994,"date":"2026-03-12T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/519994\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:55:09","slug":"single-white-female-remake-with-ortega-russell-gets-title-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/519994\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Single White Female’ Remake With Ortega & Russell Gets Title, Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: After her film Bodies Bodies Bodies earned strong reviews, writer Sarah DeLappe<\/a> has been set to pen the script for 3000 Pictures<\/a>\u2019\u00a0Single Female<\/a>,\u00a0with Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell to star<\/a> in the remake of the 1990s box office hit Single White Female<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tInsiders also tell Deadline that Stacey Sher and Marisa Paiva will produce alongside Ortega and Russell.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original 1992 film starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh and followed a woman who begins to suspect strange and sinister things about her new roommate moving into the apartment. The film was not only a surprise hit but turned its leads into stars.<\/p>\n

\n\tBesides DeLappe joining as writer, the producer additions are a sign the studio is considering the project a high priority. Sher is no stranger to producing high-profile projects with past credits including Contagion and the Oscar-nominated Django Unchained. She most recently produced the A24 horror thriller Heretic. For Paiva, this marks her first major producing job after spending the past two decades as a respected studio exec.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeLappe is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter best known for her work tackling young female relationship dynamics. She wrote the screenplay for\u00a0A24\u2019s\u00a02022 horror comedy\u00a0Bodies Bodies Bodies,\u00a0which was both a critical and commercial success.\u00a0Her play\u00a0The Wolves\u00a0received the American Playwriting Foundation\u2019s inaugural Relentless Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\u00a0She is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360 and Schreck Rose.<\/p>\n

\n\tOrtega plays Wednesday Addams\u00a0in the Netflix series Wednesday\u00a0with director Tim Burton at the helm. The series is currently in production on Season 3.\u00a0Up next, she has\u00a0Taika Waititi\u2019s\u00a0Klara and the Sun\u00a0which will be released by Sony, as well as Warner Bros\u2019 The Great Beyond\u00a0directed by JJ Abrams which will hit theaters in November.\u00a0She is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n

\n\tRussell will star next in\u00a0Hope, the anticipated Korean thriller from director Na Hong-jin. Russell recently made her stage debut in Jamie Lloyd\u2019s revival of Lucy Prebble\u2019s\u00a0The Effect, which had runs in both London and New York. Her breakout role came in Luca Guadagnino\u2019s 2022 drama\u00a0Bones and All, where she starred opposite Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. She is repped by UTA and Lichter, Grossman.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After her film Bodies Bodies Bodies earned strong reviews, writer Sarah DeLappe has been set to pen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[234808,88,26319,206,234809,234810,234811,18925],"class_list":["post-519994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-3000-pictures","tag-entertainment","tag-jenna-ortega","tag-movies","tag-sarah-delappe","tag-single-female","tag-single-white-female","tag-taylor-russell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}