Mar­got Rob­bie has joined the cast of Wes Anderson’s next film

It’s a good time to be Mar­got Rob­bie, though we’d prob­a­bly be hard-pressed to find a time that isn’t. Still, this week espe­cial­ly – not only did her lat­est super­hero out­ing The Sui­cide Squad open to bet­ter-than-aver­age reviews, she’s now land­ed a sup­port­ing role in the next film from what recent dis­course has revealed to be one of the most con­tro­ver­sial direc­tors in the Amer­i­can cinema.

The Hol­ly­wood Reporter has revealed that she’s joined the cast of Wes Ander­son​’s mys­tery project set in Spain, with prin­ci­pal pho­tog­ra­phy on track to com­mence lat­er this month. She’ll appear along­side anoth­er new­com­er to the Ander­son sta­ble of reper­to­ry play­ers, Tom Han­ks, as well as such famil­iar faces as Adrien Brody, Til­da Swin­ton, and Bill Mur­ray.

All that’s real­ly known about the project at this stage is its set­ting; some par­tial­ly-built sets hav­ing been glimpsed out­side of Madrid near the town of Chinchón. Though Swin­ton has let slip that the film ​“isn’t about Spain,” this nonethe­less appears to con­tin­ue Anderson’s lat­est glo­be­trot­ter phase that’s tak­en him from the frosty peaks of East­ern Europe (The Grand Budapest Hotel) to a stop-motion Japan (Isle of Dogs) and now to mid­cen­tu­ry France (The French Dis­patch).

Also on the hori­zon for Rob­bie is the lead­ing role in Damien Chazelle​’s in-progress 1920s Hol­ly­wood peri­od piece, Baby­lon, and a gig in David O Rus­sell​’s as-yet-unti­tled next fea­ture. On top of that, anoth­er addi­tion to the Sui­cide Squad fran­chise seems all but assured, con­sid­er­ing the suc­cess of the lat­est chap­ter – boom times for both Rob­bie and her fans (known as Robbers).

Robbie’s intro­duc­tion to the Ander­son­verse rais­es the ques­tion of who wouldn’t fit in with an atmos­phere that can allow for both the solem­ni­ty of Har­vey Kei­t­el and the antics of Adrien Brody. His next cast mem­ber could be anyone.