Jessica Alba is turning scheming villainess, which might be going against type but Fanboys director Kyle Newman’s thinks it’s a good idea for his new film, Barely Lethal, as he’s cast her as the movie’s antagonist, according to ScreenDaily.
Hailee Steinfeld is set to plat as Megan, a teenage assassin who has spent her whole life at an elite boarding school where she has been trained to kill. Yearning for a normal life, she fakes her own death and escapes, enrolling in a suburban high school. Jessica Alba plays Victoria Knox, who is furious that Megan has given up the killing life and so chases after her.
Samuel L Jackson will be Steinfeld’s mentor, with Newman directing from a script by John D’Arco. Barely Lethal starts shooting in October.
With Fanboys, director Kyle Newman explored people’s love of Star Wars, and now he’s planning to stay in the galaxy far far away, as he’s developing Chewie, a movie based on the life of Peter Mayhew, the actor who played the iconic Wookie sidekick in the original Star Wars films.