Zoe Kravitz will be taking her bad-ass movie persona to her next project, titled Black Belle, according to Deadline. After several action-packed supporting roles in the Divergent series, X-Men: First Class, and her most recent performance in Mad Max: Fury Road, Kravitz is ready to lead her own action film.
Black Belle will take place in the days following the U.S. Civil War and will follow Kravitz as a lone bounty hunter, hired to carry out others’ revenge. She soon finds herself investigating her own mother’s murder, and carries out a revenge plot of her own against someone closer to her than she thinks.
The film will also have a female-led creative team. Shana Betz, director of the indie Free Ride starring Anna Paquin (TV’s True Blood), has signed on to direct based off a script by tyro scribe Tasha Huo. Filming will begin this September.
Female-led westerns have not been a regular occurrence in the past, however this news will likely give a boost to the genre. Black Belle will soon find company in the long-awaited Natalie Portman (Black Swan) western Jane Got Gun, which will be out later this year.
In the meantime, Kravitz will be busy promoting her remaining films for this year including Vincent-N-Roxxy with Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), and Viena and the Fantomes with Dakota Fanning (The Runaways), as well as filming the third Divergent film, Allegiant – Part 1.
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