After a slew of bad films like The Eye, Awake and The Love Guru, you’d think Jessica Alba would opt to lay low for a bit. I’m not talking off the radar low, but at least out of the spotlight where she can hone her acting skills and establish some sort of positive reputation. Apparently nobody has given her any advice along these lines, because Alba is picking up projects left and right. There’s the third Meet the Parents film, The Killer Inside Me, An Invisible Sign of My Own and, the newest addition, The Insiders.
According to ICv2 (via Pajiba), Alba nabbed the rights to bring the Belgian graphic novel series The Insiders to life. Don’t worry, Alba isn’t taking this project on solo, she’s actually in good company with her Sin City director, Robert Rodriguez. Mabrouk el Mechri (JCVD) will direct and Alba will star as the heroine, Naja Cruz, “a Columbian who is as deadly as she is beautiful. She has the weapons expertise and combat skills of a James Bond. At the secret request of the White House she infiltrates a worldwide mafia-like organization composed of businessmen and politicians and becomes the bodyguard of the organization’s leader.”
Don’t go looking for a copy of The Insiders just yet. Although seven volumes have hit stores in France, with an 8th expected to drop in October, none are available in the states. An English version of Insiders Vol. 1: Chechen Guerilla is expected to be available in the US, but not until October.
Is Alba so desperate to star in an actioner that she had to buy a movie herself? This has ‘bad idea’ written all over it. Alba should make like the Invisible Woman and just disappear.
