Thaindian News

By Ken Roy

Aug 25 (IBNS) Actress Elizabeth Banks is in the final stages of negotiations to star in “The Next Three Days” for writer-director Paul Haggis at Lionsgate.

Hollywood Reporter said that Banks would play the lead role of Laura, a woman who is imprisoned for a murder she claims she didn’t commit, as her husband, the recently cast Russell Crowe, desperately tries to vindicate her.

In his desperate attempt to help her, Crowe’s character goes to enormous, dangerous and relationship-troubling lengths.

Banks will be continuing her drama run with The Next Three Days. Haggis plans to start shooting next month.

The suspense drama is a remake of the 2008 French thriller “Pour Elle,” which was written and directed by Fred Cavaye.

While Banks is still best known for her comedy roles, she’s always been mixing it up, most recently with the likes of The Uninvited and W.

Haggis, his Highway 61 Films partner Michael Nozik and Fidelite’s Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc are producing. Lionsgate execs Alli Shearmur and Wolfgang Hammer are overseeing for the studio.

Filming is scheduled to begin next month.

Banks, who is represented by UTA and Untitled Entertainment, most recently starred in “Zach and Miri Make a Porno,” “The Uninvited” and “W.” She is currently shooting the comedy “The Details” opposite Tobey Maguire.

Banks is attached to star in and produce, through her Brownstone Prods., the comedy “Forever 21,” which is in development at DreamWorks.