Margot Robbie is set to ‘replace Emma Stone’ alongside Brad Pitt in period Hollywood film Babylon

Margot Robbie is set to ‘replace Emma Stone’ alongside Brad Pitt in period Hollywood film Babylon

La La Land’s director Damien Chazelle’s upcoming Old Hollywood epic, Babylon, is due to shake up its main female lead.

After an apparent scheduling conflict, Emma Stone, 32, has exited the cast.

According to Deadline, Australian actress Margot Robbie, 30, is now being lined up by producers to swiftly replace Emma.  

Australian actress Margot Robbie (pictured) is set to ‘replace Emma Stone’ in new period Hollywood film, Babylon, alongside Brad Pitt

If Margot lands the role, she’ll be reuniting with her Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood co-star, Brad Pitt.

The movie was supposed to begin filming in Los Angeles before the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to plans, so it’s likely the change in filming dates created a scheduling conflict for Emma.  

Distributed by Paramount, Babylon is currently slated for a Christmas Day 2021 release.

While plot details are still being kept under wraps, the film is reportedly a period drama set in the late 1920s and early ’30s in Hollywood at the turn in the movie industry between silents and talkies.

Babylon will be produced by Olivia Hamilton, Matt Plouffe, Marc Platt, and Tobey Maguire.

Meanwhile, Brad is also set to star in the upcoming David Leitch movie, Bullet Train, which is based on the Japanese Novel, Maria Beetle, by Kotaro Isaka. 

Earlier this year, Margot was named as one of Hollywood’s hardest working actresses for working on 19 films in the past five years.

The Birds of Prey star, 29, starred in 15 feature length films, had a cameo in two films, worked exclusively as a producer on one film and starred in a short film, according to research by PartyCasino.

The Australian star’s most notable roles have been in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Bombshell, Mary Queen of Scots and I, Tonya.