Margot Robbie to star in A24's 'The Week of Pain' from 'The Drama' director
Margot Robbie is headed back to A24. The "Barbie" star will lead "The Week of Pain," the next film from Kristoffer Borgli, the writer-director who just turned "The Drama" into one of 2026's surprise box office hits. Variety confirmed the casting on Nov. 13.
A24 is producing and financing the project, with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen's Square Peg banner producing alongside Dilemma Films and Robbie's LuckyChap. The deal reunites the same A24-Square Peg-Borgli trio that delivered "The Drama" this April.
Plot details are still under wraps, but Borgli's track record points in a certain direction. Both of his earlier films, "Dream Scenario" and "Sick of Myself," are squirmy dramas with streaks of cringe-out humor, and Variety says it is safe to assume "The Week of Pain" lands in that same lane.
A director on a hot streak
"The Drama," starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya, was an intimate original dramedy about a wedding week derailed by a childhood secret. It became a box office smash, grossing $135 million worldwide against a slim $28 million budget, which makes the new film a logical next step for the same producers.
Robbie is carrying her own momentum too. "Wuthering Heights" gave audiences a big-screen affair between the "Barbie" superstar as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as her mysterious love interest Heathcliff, and it rocketed to $241 million worldwide earlier this year.
Coming up next is an "Ocean's 11" prequel opposite Bradley Cooper, who is also directing. At CinemaCon 2026 Robbie teased that the film follows "an epic heist at the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix," with the pair presumably playing the parents of George Clooney's Danny Ocean.
Clooney, in a completely separate sequel, is getting the band back together from the 2001 original for one last ride.
There is no release date yet for "The Week of Pain," and A24 has not announced when filming begins. Robbie is represented by Entertainment 360, CAA, Narrative, Aran Michael Management and attorney Jeff Bernstein; Borgli is repped by UTA.