Elizabeth Banks Joining Man On a Ledge with Sam Worthington

My mind continues to melt towards why Elizabeth Banks isn't a star. She's smart, sexy, always a solid actor and has great comic timing. So of course, the "star" vehicles allude her and those fat checks get fished out to Katherine Heigl (you know, someone with considerably less talent) and Banks continues being wasted.

One of these days that'll turn I tells ya – knock on wood. Yes, she did star in Kevin Smith's Zack & Miri Make a Porno. But that did no one any favors despite her being funny and the movie was cute enough.

"TOLDJA" reports she'll co-star along with Sam Worthington, Jamie Bell and Anthony Mackie in the crime thriller Man On a Ledge. Yes, the film is about a man on a ledge. Here it's a falsely accused cop (Worthington) and Banks will play a crisis negotiator trying to talk him down. Oh, and they used to be an item.

Production starts in New York this November.