Ronda Rousey Joins THE ATHENA PROJECT!

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As UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey maintains herself in the competitive world of mixed martial arts sports, she is also continuing her hot streak this year as a rising film actress just off of shooting her scenes for Fast And Furious 7 and The Expendables 3. Reports from Variety indicate that not only is Rousey set to star in the theatrical feature-length adaptation of the HBO show Entourage, but Warner Bros. has obtained the rights to New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor’s 2010 publication, The Athena Project for the actress to lead.

The official plot is unknown, but the following summary of the book itself provides a close-enough idea of where the film is headed:

The world’s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon…

From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.

Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Force’s newest members have only one thing setting them apart—their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed The Athena Project, four of Delta’s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nation’s deadliest assignments.

When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the story than anyone knows.

In the jungles of South America, a young U.S. intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of America’s greatest fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the U.S. government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.

As the women close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attack—one of unimaginable proportions—has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.

Rousey reportedly fell in love with the book after meeting the author last year while she was filming The Expendables 3 and attached herself to it before it even had studio involvement. Optimism remains high as well for this latest all-female actioner in the wake of the latest news on The ExpendaBelles on Thursday, as moviegoers now have even more reasons to look forward to watching women in action on the big screen, with Rousey paving her own road to action cinema stardom.
Rousey is set to defend her UFC title against Sarah McMann at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 22, 2014 prior to shooting her scenes in Entourage this March for its 2015 release, while The Athena Project is also reportedly searching for a writer with further info still pending. In the meantime, action fans can catch Rousey among a powerhouse line-up in director Patrick Hughes’ The Expendables 3 on August 15, 2014, in addition to Universal Pictures’ April 10, 2015 release of Fast And Furious 7.
Lee B. Golden III
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Native New Yorker. Lover of all things pizza, chocolate, pets, and good friends. Karaoke hero. Left of center. Survivor. Fond supporter of cult, obscure and independent cinema - especially fond of Asian movies and global action cinema. Author of the bi-weekly Hit List. Founder and editor of Film Combat Syndicate. Still, very much, only human.

Lee Golden

Native New Yorker. Lover of all things pizza, chocolate, pets, and good friends. Karaoke hero. Left of center. Survivor. Fond supporter of cult, obscure and independent cinema - especially fond of Asian movies and global action cinema. Author of the bi-weekly Hit List. Founder and editor of Film Combat Syndicate. Still, very much, only human.

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