The project, based on the Argentine series Mujeres Asesinas, revolves around a female Texas Ranger who is described as “a ballsy, beautiful badass.” She’sonly woman in the notoriously male Rangers who isn’t afraid to ruffle a few feathers in getting to the truth.
Milans will portray Nessa, Molly’s sister-in-law and friend.
Her credits include a starring role in Spain’s Valientes television series and a guest-starring role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She also portrayed a cocktail waitress in 2011’s Shame, starring Michael Fassbender.
He’s earned a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award… But Martin Sheen could soon bethe proud recipient of Ireland’s IFTA Award.
The 71-year-old half-Spanish/half-Irish actor, best known for his turn as the U.S. President on TheWest Wing, has received a leading actor in a film nomination from the Irish Film & Television Academy.
Sheen earned the nod for his role as Irish priest father Daniel Barry in the Irish film production Stella Days, a film about a small town cinema in rural Ireland that becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood and a man and his conscience.
He faces some tough competition from Michael Fassbender (Shame), Brendan Gleeson (TheGuard) and Ciaran Hinds (TinkerTailorSoldierSpy) in the category.
The Irish Academy’s awards are handed out annually, aiming to celebrate Irish talent in both film and television.
“Ireland’s economic struggles have been well documented, but against this pressure it’s heartening to see how Ireland’s hard-working creative community continues to punch above its weight and really deliver,” says Irish Academy CEO Aine Moriarty.
This year’s awards will be presented in Dublin on February 11.
Jose Padilha has massive plans for his remake of the 1980s cult classic RoboCop.
The 44-year-old Brazilian director says the film will not only be jam-packed with action scenes, but also offer aggresive social satirical commentary.
“The satire element of RoboCop is, I think, needed today,” he explained in an interview with The Telegraph. “That kind of social, aggressive satire I haven’t seen done well in movies lately. And it’s almost like the politics and violence in the world is asking for this: ‘Someone please make some satire now!’ So we’re going to keep that edge.”
Padilha, best known for directing Elite Squad director admitted he isn’t too worried the satire will be misunderstood.
“I just don’t think about it. If people want to misunderstand it, it’s their problem,” he said. “This is something that happened with films throughout history. Elite Squad became one of those. Taxi Driver is famous for that kind of misunderstanding.”
“But, as a filmmaker, I don’t feel like constraining artistic expression by second guessing an audience,” Padilha continued. “I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place: it’s unavoidable.”
RoboCop, released in 1987, follows a police offiver brought back from the brink of death in the form of a cyborg with no memories of his prior life.
No word on who will play the lead, although Padilha has hinted he’d love to audition the hot-right-now actor Michael Fassbender, who recently appeared in X-Men: First Class and Shame.
Filming on the project is set to begin in Detroit, Michigan in early 2012.
