Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Beals Is Booked

After revving her career with TV's The L Word, actress Jennifer Beals is ready to return to the big screen in The Book Of Eli, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The story centers on a lone hero named Eli (Denzel Washington) who must fight his way across the wasteland of a near-future America to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving humanity

Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis and Ray Stevenson also star

Beals is playing Oldman's female prize and Kunis' mother, a blind woman doing anything she can to protect her child.



The script, by Gary Whitta got a rewrite by Anthony Peckham with.Albert and Allen Hughes are directing.

I have had a crush on Beale ever since her star making debut in the iconic 1983 movie Flashdance,...Wahinton and Beals paired up once before in Devil in a Blue Dress...

Shooting begins next month.

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