Jurnee Smollett will star in a brand new action film called Fuel, according to Deadline. The 34-year-old Lovecraft Country star has teamed up with the HBO show’s EP Misha Green for the movie, which is also being set up as an action vehicle for Jurnee.
With a script being written by Kat Wood, the site reports that the plan is to develop the movie where Jurnee would play a wheel woman, a fresh take on a familiar character. “The film is an action-packed female empowerment story that will subvert the relationship between cars and masculinity.
The heroine is a getaway driver who is coerced into working for a criminal and breaking all the rules she set out for herself,” Deadline says. Kat and Jurnee will also executive producer along with Misha.
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