Overview
- Talks between Warner Bros. and Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling have stalled after the studio made more than six offers over three years that the team rejected.
- Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav has resisted further concessions, a stance sources say is a key reason the negotiations remain frozen.
- Studio executives have roughly four months to put a sequel into active development or the rights revert to Mattel, which would bar use of Gerwig’s film elements and require a full reboot.
- Gerwig and Baumbach reportedly have a sequel idea but are withholding it until deals are signed, and CAA has not countered Warner’s most recent proposal.
- Financial terms are the core dispute: reports cite Ryan Gosling seeking about $20 million, Margot Robbie’s past earnings near $50 million, and demands for bigger upfront pay and larger back-end points while the studio says its latest offer was exceptionally large though that claim is disputed.