CARRIE SOLOMON

“Untitled Margot Robbie Ocean’s Eleven Project”

Solomon was working as an assistant in 2018 on the set of “Ocean’s Eight” when a particular line from the film struck her and sparked what is now the basis of the upcoming “Ocean’s Eleven” prequel produced and starring Margot Robbie and directed by Jay Roach.

“By the time that I was somehow being regarded as a paid professional writer in this town, I’d met at Margot’s company,” she says. “I kind of just elbowed my way into a room that I probably did not have big enough britches for and decided I was going to convince everyone that I was the person to write this.” While the film is tightly under wraps, Solomon shared how extensively she researched for the 1960s Europe set film, including reading more than 40 books and purchasing an encyclopedia set on crime.

2023 is shaping into a big year for Solomon with two upcoming Netflix

features also expected: Her 2019 Black List script “My Boyfriend’s Wedding” and “A Family Affair” directed by Richard Lagravenese and starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Joey King.

“It’s been a supremely dissociative experience. I find myself constantly, just absolutely pinching myself. I’m not gonna lie,” she says.

Solomon strives to create a body of work that is “like that feeling of downing a good piece of pizza.”

“Walking out of a theater, getting up from your couch, going to bed — that is the feeling that I would hope to bring to this landscape if I could have any influence at all.”

Reps: Agent: UTA, Management: MXN Entertainment, Legal: Yorn Levine

Influences: Aaron Sorkin, Nora Ephron, Katie Silverman, Kate Cannon, Andrea Savage, Lake Bell — Alexa Harrison

I looked at NYU Film School at the time, I didn’t see people like me. And it just seemed like too big of a leap.” — Shiwani Srivastava