DC’s Zatanna Movie Has NabbedPromising Young Woman’sEmerald Fennell

Emerald Fennell ’s foretell Young Woman is presently up for the Best Picture award atthis class ’s Oscars , its star Carey Mulligan has been nominated for Best Actress , and Fennel herself may getBest Directorand Best Screenplay . And now she ’s going to drop a line a picture show based on DC Comics ’ arguably third - most famous magician .

Not to knockZatanna — she ’s a play eccentric who dresses like an old - shoal magician ’s supporter and her spells require her to just say words backward — but she ’s decidedly less pop and well - known than say , John Constantineor Raven . Still , that ’s not to say this is n’t awe-inspiring intelligence which come this afternoon viaDeadline(who also nicely reminded reader Zatanna Zatara was created for DC Comics in 1964 by created by Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson ) .

It ’s still rare enough any time a studio apartment carry off to charter a supremely gifted fair sex like Fennell — who also has write for and grow Killing Eve and starred in Netflix ’s The Crown — to write or direct a movie about a superhero that it ’s causa for celebration , as is any superhero movie about afemale character . Zatanna is not the character I would have expected but bully to the studio for continuing to focus on female heroes while simultaneously failing tomake a Flash moviefor long time .

Cover of Zatanna #12 by Amanda Conner.