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.

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Shooting begins next month.