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More info about Lena's new movie, it looks like it's a horror flick rather than a thriller... @-) :-< and - here I get a little worried - it involves monsters... :-o /blur

Anyway here is a new article with a bit more info, the Morning Starr reports:
"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles star Lena Headey will be the lead in the brand new horror film Safe House. Headey leads a pretty impressive cast in the movie which is being touted as “Assault On Precinct 13 meets The Thing”. The plot involves a mother and teenage daughter who are put in a safe house as part of a witness protection programme, but things turn sour when the house and it’s occupants are attacked by vicious monsters. The plot might not be the most original, but Headey will be joined by the legendary Michael Ironside and the role of the teenage daughter appears to have been offered to the yummy Kate Mara. Michael Trucco from Battlestar Galactica and V will also be joining them, and the special effects team behind the aliens in District 9 will be creating the monsters."

And here's what the director said:
"Safehouse is a terrific project, a totally entertaining movie with a fresh angle - we start pre-production this fall with shooting in South Africa in the Spring of next year. This movie is an entirely different project for me. It’s very realistic, shot on location, full of jumps and scares. Its going to be great and I am so excited to working with Lena, (Headey) Michael (Ironside) and such a tremendous cast."

Sources: The Morning Starr & Quiet Earth

It looks like Lena has been cast in a new movie! It's a thriller, let's hope it's a good one... 8-| :-S

She'll play the lead role, here's the article from Deadline:

The Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles actress will lead the cast in a new Brit shocker being planned for next year. Michael Ironside (Terminator Salvation) is also attached. Offers are out to Kate Mara (Iron-Man 2) and Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica).
Safe House, which is due to begin filming next March, follows a team of US Marshals charged with protecting a mob-trial witness and her teenage daughter, Alice. Mother and daughter are relocated to an isolated compound high in the Californian Rockies. The location appears secure -- outfitted specifically for witness protection -- yet its past is steeped in mystery and violence...
Producer Steve Iles of Spirit Pictures pitches it as “Assault On Precinct 13 meets The Thing.” The director is Simon Hunter, whose last movie was Mutant Chronicles. “Safe House is totally different from Chronicles, which was a big canvas,” Hunter tells me. “This is a world that I’m going to portray in an extremely realistic way.”
Andy Briggs, who wrote Aquaman for Warner Bros and has worked with Stan Lee and Robert Evans, has written the screenplay and is also producing.
The filmmakers are certainly building this one from the ground up to be a fanboy’s wet dream. Image Engine, the Canadian VFX shop which created the aliens in District 9, is in talks to do the monster design. Simon Bowles, who regularly works with Neil Marshall (The Descent), will be production designer. Prosthetics will be built by SFX veteran Shaune Harrison (Harry Potter, Star Wars). And Jeremy Zimmerman is casting director (Moon, Hellboy II).