Role: A Russian spy trained in the art of seduction. Status: Set for release March 2018.įresh off her Oscar win, Vikander takes on the role that helped turn Angelina Jolie into an icon, in a reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise. Do yourself a favor and watch the trailer here.
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Status: Set for release January 2018.ĭirected by Iranian-born action director Babak Najafi, this movie is in the can and slated for release next year. Role: An elite Boston assassin unsure with an existential crisis. Adapted from a popular comic series, our titular hero is an undercover cop who attempts to infiltrate a mafia ring only to gain powers during a chemical explosion that makes her virtually indestructible.
Late last year, Variety reported that Chastain had signed on for the lead role in Painkiller Jane. Then, on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, she sets out for a bloody revenge. After waking up from a coma, she takes her sweet time turning herself into a human killing machine. According to Deadline, Garner plays a mother who witnesses her entire family being gunned down. Just announced today, former Alias star Garner is returning to her action roots in Peppermint. Role: “A female John Wick.” Status: Just announced. Upon learning that the plane crash wasn’t an accident, she then becomes an assassin who adopts multiple personalities to get revenge.
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Status: Just announced.īased on a popular series of novels kicked off by The Rhythm Section and ushered to screen by the same producers of the James Bond series, Lively is set to play a character who loses her entire family in a plane crash and gets sent into a downward spiral of drugs and sex work.
Here, a list of the female action heroines to look forward to: Now it seems Hollywood is lining up more to make even more. Alias star Jennifer Garner is just the latest to sign on to such a project, according to today’s editions of the Hollywood trades, but everyone from Blake Lively to Jennifer Garner and Jessica Chastain to Rihanna is set to play something like an international spy, a revenge-inspired assassin, or a femme fatale super thief.Ĭharlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde may not have been a blockbuster, but it did well enough at the box office, and it pleased critics-especially for its epic stunt work. We may have to wait a little bit longer for a female James Bond, but suddenly female-fronted action thrillers are all over Hollywood.
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