Charlie’s Angels gets 2019-ed

IT’S THE FIRST ONE MADE BY A WOMAN

ll previous iterations of have been male visions of a women’s world. The 1970s TV show was made by men; as were the two early 2000s movies directed). Banks wanted to make a movie that had fun, but still took the private detective trio seriously. “I want to tell a story about women at work,” she says. “I don’t care about their boyfriends, the mum they don’t call, the cat they don’t feed. These women are here to kick ass and do a great job.”