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Charlize Theron is Jinx
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:56 AM EDT
Charlize Theron is in negotiations to star in and produce "Jinx", based on a comic book about a bounty hunter.
Her character must learn to trust a wanted criminal so they can team up to find millions of dollars of abandoned mob money in order to start a new life together.
Brian Michael Bendis, who spent 2-1/2 years writing and illustrating the comic, will adapt his own work for Universal Pictures.
"This is not the traditional comic book movie, which tends to be more about concept," Bendis said. "This is a crime novel that is illustrated so you're more interested in the voice of it."
Bendis is considered a star in the comic world and has won the Eisner, the comic world's equivalent of the Oscar, five times, including writer of the year the past two years. Among the numerous books he is writing are "Ultimate Spider-Man" and "Daredevil" for Marvel Comics, and several of his independent comics are being developed as feature films. "Torso" is set up at Todd McFarlane Prods., while the award-winning "Powers" is set up at Sony.
Theron, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her performance in "Monster", is training four hours day to get in shape for Paramount Pictures' action movie "Aeon Flux", which begins shooting July 17 in Berlin. She will next be seen in HBO's "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers", portraying actress Britt Ekland, and is attached to star in "Class Action" for Warner Bros Pictures.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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