Action Spy Thriller THE RHYTHM SECTION Casts Actress Blake Lively To Star
The Handmaid’s Tale helmer Reed Morano and actress Blake Lively are now at the center of the latest efforts to advance a female-driven spy vehicle from IM Global and EON Productions. The Rhythm Section, penned by author Mark Burnell will be the IP from which Lively will reportedly star for the film’s production slate to commence later this year. The announcement, in the wake of Lively’s recently-announced MMA drama, Bruised, comes as a delightful additive to what has so far been a great summer of movie news, particulatly regarding female-led buzz titles like Charlize Theron’s Atomic Blonde and Jung Byung-Gil’s festival favorite, The Villainess. The book series, for which the film is being pitched as in the vein of Jason Bourne and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has four installments to date, published by HarperCollins as of 1999 along with efforts reported as early as 2005 by New Line […]