Gina Carano Wins Starring Role in Major Action Film 'Knockout'
Posted by fightstalker on Monday Sep 7, 2009 Under Breaking News, Gina Carano
“Movie star” will apparently be the next descriptor for Gina Carano.
The popular athlete who has been a Muay Thai fighter, MMA fighter, American Gladiator and magazine model is reportedly set to star in a spy thriller being helmed by Oscar-award winning director Steven Soderbergh.
The film’s title seems apt: Knockout.
Carano, who recently suffered her first MMA loss in first-round TKO at the hands of Cris Cyborg, will play the lead in the action flick, which will begin production in January, according to Variety.com.
Carano is 7-1 in her MMA career. She made her feature film debut in 2009’s Blood & Bone, but Knockout would be her first starring role. The film, which will be shot in Ireland, Turkey and the U.S., will reportedly be about a woman who “gets a second chance to use her skills for constructive purposes,” Variety wrote.
She’ll be in good hands. Soderbergh won a “Best Director” Oscar in 2000 for the crime drama Traffic, and is best known for helming the Ocean’s Eleven series.
