Jessica Biel is set to topline United Artists’ crime thriller Die a Little based on Megan Abbott’s novel.
The pic explores how the lives of a schoolteacher and her LAPD detective brother are turned upside down by a mysterious woman. The novel’s set in 1954 in the Los Angeles area, but the pic will be set in the present day.
Marcia and Geoffrey Blake are writing the script, but there is no word on who will direct.
Biel is currently working on Powder Blue Forest Whitaker, Patrick Swayze and Ray Liotta and was last seen in the terrible I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
