Zoë Saldaña is looking to bring a mystery novel to life…
Saldaña has teamed up with producers Jane Startz and Aida Bernal to option the mystery thriller Hell or High Water.
The 34-year-old half-Puerto Rican & half-Dominican American actress and her sister Cisley’s Saldaña Productions will work with Jane Startz Productions and Bernal’s Spellbound Entertainment to bring the novel to the screen.
The companies are currently trying to figure out whether Joy Castro‘s debut novel will be made into a feature or a television series.
Hell or High Water follows New Orleans reporter Nola Céspedes as she is dragged into the city’s post-Katrina underworld on the trail of what she thinks will be her big scoop. The novel was released July 17 by Thomas Dunne Books and was named one of the best books of 2012 by The Kirkus Review.
Saldaña is starring in the upcoming J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness,which will be released on May 17, 2013.
She’ll next be seen alongside Clive Owen inBlood Ties, directed by Guillaume Canet.
Zoë Saldaña could be producing more Latino projects in the near future… The 35-year-old Puerto Rican/Dominican-American has inked a deal with Lionsgate, the independent film and television distribution company, to develop further content for the Hispanic market. Lionsgate’s Pantelion Films studio will start producing film and television projects with Saldaña…
Zoë Saldaña is reporting for Mamas duty… The 43-year-old Puerto Rican and Dominican American actress will form part of Roku’s original documentary series Mamas, which debuts on Friday, May 6, just before Mother’s Day. The nature series follows powerful matriarchs of the animal kingdom, spotlighting the universality of motherhood, and…
Zoë Saldaña’s career is humming along… The 38-year-old half-Dominican/half-Puerto Rican American actress will star in Hummingbird, the action thriller to be directed by Marcus Kryler and Fredrik Akerström from a Black List script by John McClain. The story centers on a female black-ops assassin (Saldaña) whose latest mark forces her…
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