Michael Vartan Joins Colombiana

Michael Vartan is best known to you as Vaughn in Alias opposite the lovely Jennifer Garner, I say this because it's the only thing I've ever seen him in bar a trailer for a JLO rom com where he played her boyfriend and she got her face slammed into a cream cake by some old actress.

Anyway he has a new movie role and once again he's the boyfriend of a badass female lead according to Heat Vision.

Michael Vartan will star opposite Zoe Saldana in "Colombiana," an action movie produced and co-written by Luc Besson that is being directed by "Transporter 3" helmer Olivier Megaton.

The film centers on a woman (Saldana) who as a child witnessed her parents' murder in Bogota. She grows up to become a hitwoman by day but in her personal time engages in vigilante murders to lead her to her ultimate target: the mobster responsible for her parents' deaths.

Vartan will play Saldana's boyfriend, an artist with no idea what she does for a living who is her only link to normalcy.

Besson wrote the script with Robert Mark Kamen; the pair previously teamed to pen "Taken," "The Transporter" and "The Fifth Element."

Besson is producing with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam and Ariel Zeitoun.

Production will begin in late summer in Chicago, New Orleans and Mexico City. The action thriller is set to be released Sept. 2, 2011.

Besson certainly loves his assassins and Leon is an all time classic, but these second tier actioners he's been churning out as writer/producer are very hit and miss, for every 'Taken' there is a 'Transporter 3' and this flick happens to share the same director as that noisy drek.