Emma Thompson to Star in Action Thriller ‘The Fisherwoman’

For the last few years, we’ve watched the likes of Sylvester Stallone.

But even more recently, there has been Lou’.

And further proof that we’re in for a shift is word that Emma Thompson entering the fray.

Variety reports that Dame Emma is now aboard to star in a new action thriller called ‘The Fisherwoman’. She’ll play a widowed fisherwoman who, while trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s only hope.

Brian Kirk is directing this one. A veteran of both TV and movies, he helped launch 21 Bridges’.

The script comes from writers Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot company and Warner Bros. They’re also working on alien invasion movie ‘The Fall’.

“Dame Emma Thompson is a phenomenally talented artist and the perfect incarnation of our film’s titular character,” says Jon Berg, president of production at Stampede Ventures, which is one of the companies backing the movie. “We couldn’t be more honored and excited to see her embody a character that shares her unique strength, grit and intelligence.”

Thompson is also an executive producer on the movie, the rights to which will be offered up to buyers at the European Film Market, which happens later this month.

It’s not exactly the sort of film that we expected Thompson to pick, though the multi-talented, award winning actor, writer and producer can do anything she likes. Just this year alone, she was seen in ‘Matilda’ musical movie as the villainous Miss Trunchbull.

Coming up, she has rom com ‘My Fair Lady’.

And who hasn’t watched ‘Die Hard’ villain?