Jessica Biel Does Noir

Well now we know what movie Jessica Biel passed up JLA’s Wonder Woman role for. HR says she’s set to star in a United Artists crime thriller called Die A Little.

The title makes it sound like a James Bond movie, but it’s actually about a schoolteacher and her LAPD detective brother. It’s based on a nourish novel in which the brother falls hard for a beautiful woman with a dark secret. His sister sets out to uncover her ugly side and protect him from his new love’s past. The book, like any good noir, is set in the 50s; but Jessica Biel’s version is being updated to much more boring modern times. Film noir feels so wrong with cell phones.

So Jessica Biel is playing a film noir schoolteacher. No director yet, but the book is being adapted into a script by Marcia and Geoffrey Blake, whose idea this whole thing was in the first place. I love a good noir, but I think I’d rather have seen Jessica wielding a golden lasso.