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LADY KILLER Netflix Adaptation Casts THE SHALLOWS Star Blake Lively In The Lead; Diablo Cody Set To Write
Netflix s
Lady Killer, an adaptation of the Dark Horse Comic of the same name, has cast Blake Lively (
The Shallows) in the lead role with Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody (
Juno) set to pen the script.
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5/5/2021
Deadline is reporting that Blake Lively (
A Simple Favor; The Shallows) has signed on to star and produceÂ
Lady Killer, an upcoming film adaptation of the Dark Horse Comic series of the same name, for Netflix.Â
Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody (
Juno;Â
Young Adult) will write the script, which follows a seemingly ordinary woman named Josie Schuller, who by all appearances, is the perfect 1950âs housewife. But when sheâs not catering to the needs of her family, she leads a secret life as a highly-trained killer for hire. She really likes the second job, and her husband has no idea.
Blake Lively has signed up to play an assassin in new Netflix thriller Lady Killer.
Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody will adapt the Dark Horse Comics series for the big screen, with Lively also serving as a producer on the project, according to Deadline.
In the movie, the 33-year-old will portray 1950s housewife Josie Schuller, who looks like the perfect homemaker, but is in fact, a highly-trained assassin for hire named Lady Killer, and keeps her secret identity under wraps from everyone, including her husband.
The Dark Horse Comics series was created by Joelle Jones and Jamie S. Rich and was first published in 2015.
Blake Lively has killed before, and she will kill again in the aptly titled
Lady Killer movie, based on the Dark Horse comic series of the same name. Lively is set to star in the comic book adaptation coming to Netflix, which will be penned by
Diablo Cody.
Deadline reports that Lively is set to star in Netflix’s
Lady Killer movie as Josie Schuller, a perfect 1950s housewife who, when she’s not lovingly catering to the needs of her husband and family, leads a secret life as a highly-trained killer for hire. Diablo Cody (
Juno,
Tully) will pen the adaptation of the comic book series written by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, illustrated by Jones, and colored by Laura Allred.
Blake Lively is joining forces with writer Diablo Cody for an adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics property Lady Killer.
Lively, 33, is attached to star in the adaptation and produce, while Cody, 42, will write the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The project comes as reports claimed Cody had quit the Madonna biopic, though it was later clarified that she had merely finished her final draft of the script and has moved on, seemingly to this project.
Comic: Blake Lively is joining forces with writer Diablo Cody for an adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics property Lady Killer
Star-producer: Lively, 33, is attached to star in the adaptation and produce, while Cody, 42, will write the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter