{"id":727956,"date":"2010-05-17T16:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=104733"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:44:52","slug":"zoe-saldana-in-chats-for-%e2%80%9ccolumbiana%e2%80%9d-assassin-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727956","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Saldana In Chats For \u201cColumbiana\u201d Assassin Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Avatar<\/em> star Zoe Saldana is in early discussions for the lead role in <em>Columbiana<\/em> &#8212; a upcoming Luc Besson-produced action drama set in Latin America &#8212; according to a scoop from <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Zoe-Saldana-1.jpg?resize=500%2C741\" alt=\"\" title=\"Zoe-Saldana-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-81911\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-104733\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Dominican-American\/Puerto Rican actress &#8212; whose credits include <em>Star Trek, The Losers<\/em>, and <em>Death at a Funeral<\/em> &#8212;  would play a young Colombian woman who, after witnessing her parents\u2019 murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders she hopes will lead her to the mobster responsible for murdering her parents.<\/p>\n<p>The project &#8212; directed by <em>Transporter 3&#8217;s<\/em> Olivier Megaton &#8212; is expected to begin production this summer..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MEsRnoZg-uB1EJo9Tx3MZJOhZ4I\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MEsRnoZg-uB1EJo9Tx3MZJOhZ4I\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MEsRnoZg-uB1EJo9Tx3MZJOhZ4I\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MEsRnoZg-uB1EJo9Tx3MZJOhZ4I\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avatar star Zoe Saldana is in early discussions for the lead role in Columbiana &#8212; a upcoming Luc Besson-produced action drama set in Latin America &#8212; according to a scoop from The Hollywood Reporter. The Dominican-American\/Puerto Rican actress &#8212; whose credits include Star Trek, The Losers, and Death at a Funeral &#8212; would play a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}