Margot Robbie will star in ‘The Week of Pain’, the new film written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, the mind behind The Drama. A24 will finance and produce the project alongside several companies, including LuckyChap, the actress’s own production company. The casting brings together a Hollywood star with a filmmaker who has built part of his career around awkward characters and situations that spiral out of control.
The news was reported by Deadline, which places the shoot for sometime in 2027. It is worth clarifying the scope of the announcement: the synopsis has not been revealed, there is no release date, and the rest of the cast has not been confirmed. The title, as evocative as it may be, does not reveal the plot.
The film reunites Borgli with A24 and Square Peg, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s company. Dilemma Films and LuckyChap also participate in the production. For Robbie, therefore, it is not merely about accepting a role: her company is part of the project’s structure.
The director who turned discomfort into his own language
Borgli drew attention with Sick of Myself, a Norwegian satire about the hunger for notoriety, before leaping to an international production with Dream Scenario. That black comedy, starring Nicolas Cage, turned a far-fetched premise—a man who appears in the dreams of strangers—into a study of fame and its consequences.
In 2026 he released The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, about a couple facing a crisis when a secret comes to light before their wedding. The film was a commercial success for the studio: Variety put its worldwide box office at about 135 million dollars against a production budget of 28 million.
The precedent helps explain why A24 returns to the director, but it would be premature to assert that The Week of Pain will repeat the same formula. The tone, setting and plot remain unconfirmed. What we do know is the continuity of a creative relationship that has shown that an adult film, built around an interpersonal conflict, can also find an audience in theaters.
Margot Robbie’s dual role
Robbie has for years balanced blockbuster productions with projects in which she exerts influence behind the camera. Her production company LuckyChap has participated in titles with very different profiles, and the new deal with A24 extends that line of work.
The actress comes off starring in Wuthering Heights, directed by Emerald Fennell, and has on her docket the prequel to Ocean’s Eleven alongside Bradley Cooper. That trajectory shows a strategy less dependent on revisiting familiar characters than the enormous popularity of Barbie might suggest: period romances, heist cinema, and now an auteur project whose story we still do not know.
For A24 there is also an industrial reading. The studio blends contained-scale productions with names capable of widening the public conversation before release. The signing of Robbie brings visibility to a film that still lacks a public plot, though the final appeal will depend on Borgli’s concrete proposal and not solely on the star’s fame.
The next important milestone will be the actual start of filming and the unveiling of the story. Until then, The Week of Pain has a defined creative team and a production forecast for 2027, but no announced release date.
