The New King

Emma Stone leaves the court, and Brie Larson enters it.

And so it goes in Hollywood.

Larson is set to join Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes, a telling of the 1973 tennis match heard-about ’round the world between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) are directing. (Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Banks, you will remember, are attached to a similar project, for HBO, though.)

The Room star is stepping in because Stone had a scheduling conflict with another project.

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