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Blake Lively to Star in "Lady Killer" Movie Adaptation


Thu 06 May 2021 | 11:43 AM
Yara Sameh

American actress Blake Lively has teamed up with Diablo Cody for a movie adaptation of the Dark Horse Comics series "Lady Killer".

Lively will star and produce while Cody will write the production, which hails from Dark Horse Entertainment, the company behind the mega-popular Umbrella Academy series.

Dark Horse’s Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg will produce along with Kate Vorhoff, while Lively and Vorhoff will produce via their B for Effort shingle.

The comic was written by Joëlle Jones and Jamie S. Rich, with Jones, who made a splash writing and drawing Catwoman for DC, supplying the art. Jones was inspired by 1950s advertisements to build a story set in that period and focused on a picture-perfect housewife who just happens to lead a secret life as a deadly killer for hire.

"Lady Killer" first hit issue was released in 2015 and even won an Eisner Award for best-limited series in 2016.

Netflix has a first-look deal with Dark Horse Entertainment and has previously collaborated on the action-comedy series “Umbrella Academy” and Jonas Åkerlund’s feature “Polar.”