Emma Thompson Starring in ‘The Fisherwoman’

For the previous couple of years, we’ve watched the likes of Liam Neeson and Bob Odenkirk be a part of the ranks of older actors entering into the motion sport already populated by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

But much more lately, there was Allison Janney, who kicked ass as a former CIA operative-turned-recluse in ‘Lou’.

And additional proof that we’re in for a shift is phrase that Emma Thompson getting into the fray.

Variety experiences that Dame Emma is now aboard to star in a brand new motion thriller referred to as ‘The Fisherwoman’. She’ll play a widowed fisherwoman who, whereas trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teen and shortly finds she is the younger sufferer’s solely hope.

Brian Kirk is directing this one. A veteran of each TV and flicks, he helped launch Idris Elba drama ‘Luther’ and has directed episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’. On the film facet, he’s been behind the likes of ‘Middletown’ and Chadwick Boseman cop thriller ’21 Bridges’.

The script comes from writers Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, who lately landed a deal to give you a ‘Hot Wheels’ film for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot firm and Warner Bros. They’re additionally engaged on alien invasion film ‘The Fall’.

“Dame Emma Thompson is a phenomenally talented artist and the perfect incarnation of our film’s titular character,” says Jon Berg, president of manufacturing at Stampede Ventures, which is among the corporations backing the film. “We couldn’t be more honored and excited to see her embody a character that shares her unique strength, grit and intelligence.”

Thompson can also be an govt producer on the film, the rights to which can be provided as much as patrons on the European Film Market, which occurs later this month.

It’s not precisely the kind of movie that we anticipated Thompson to choose, although the multi-talented, award successful actor, author and producer can do something she likes. Just this 12 months alone, she was seen in ‘Good Luck, Leo Grande’ and the ‘Matilda’ musical film because the villainous Miss Trunchbull.

Coming up, she has rom com ‘What’s Love Got to Do with it?’ (nothing to do with the Tina Turnerbiopic of the Nineties) and quite a lot of initiatives in growth, together with ‘Road Narrows’, and a brand new adaptation of ‘My Fair Lady’.

And who hasn’t watched ‘Love Actually’ and imagined Thompson’s character wiping away her tears upon confirming her husband’s (performed by Alan Rickman) infidelity and thrown him from a constructing as with Rickman’s ‘Die Hard’ villain?