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Home Lifestyle Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o Twitter joke turns into crime caper film deal
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May 25, 2017

Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o Twitter joke turns into crime caper film deal

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Rihanna and Lupita 'looking like they're in a heist movie' at the Paris Fashion Week in 2014

Rihanna and Lupita ‘looking like they’re in a heist movie’ at the Paris Fashion Week in 2014

WHAT started as a joke on social media over a photo of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o is now getting the buddy movie treatment.

The deal was sealed at the Cannes Film Festival, and will see the pop star and the Oscar-winning actress starring alongside each other in a crime caper film.

In 2014, Rihanna and Lupita were pictured looking suspiciously cool at the Paris Fashion Week.

The photo prompted one user to comment that the two stars “looked like they’re in a heist movie with Rihanna as the tough-as-nails leader/master thief and Lupita as the genius computer hacker”.

The director responded with a picture of Rihanna wearing a crown, and the words: “Lights set. Camera’s up. Ready to call action for these queens.”

Rumour has it that Rihanna will play a con artist who tricks men, while her brilliant co-conspirator, played by Nyong’o, orchestrates the heists.

While it is yet unclear how faithful the movie will be to the online joke, Netflix has already bought its rights after what Entertainment Weekly called a “dramatic negotiation” at the French Riviera. – news.sky.com