Jessica Biel is taking on the tall man
Tue, May 18, 2010 
I like Jessica Biel, not just because she is an attractive Lady but she seems pretty nice and also is taking her career on a mixed path, eschweing the route of never ending rom coms. Now she has signed on for a new thriller according to ScreenDaily.
French director Pascal Laugier will make his English-language debut with the project.
Jessica Biel will star in The Tall Man, a film to be financed by France’s SND. French director Pascal Laugier will make his English-language debut with the project.
The film is the second English-language project from SND which will also release in France and handle international sales. Budget is $15m with shooting to start in Vancouver in September.
Tall Man is a suspenseful thriller in the vein of the early films of M. Night Shyamalan, SND’s Lionel Uzan tells Screen. Biel plays a woman who must grapple with and track the mysterious figure of The Tall Man who has kidnapped her child.
Laugier, who also wrote the film, says “I like to think of The Tall Man as a sort of Panic Room… outside! It is a ‘woman in jeopardy’ movie with a lot of twists and a strong female character that you feel very connected to.”
Tall Man is produced by Clement Miserez, (Radar Films) and Steven Schneider (Room 101 Inc.). Jean-Charles Levy and Bonnie Timmermann will also serve as executive producers.
This sounds like another good choice, after taking the big summer action film the A Team, a small thriller that will give her the chance to play a strong everywoman in a role that I imagine will see her onscreen most of the time, is just the ticket to keep the variation going.
Reader Comments (1)
You bastard! You made me think this had something to do with Phantasm V!
That's the only Tall Man I'm interested in.