MGM is in talks with Beyonce Knowles to play the chief suspect in a diamond heist in “The Pink Panther” and has tapped French star Jean Reno (“Ronin”) to play Inspector Clouseau’s traveling companion reports Variety.
Steve Martin has already signed on to the project and Jean Reno will play his driver Ponton, who’s secretly an undercover cop assigned by the boss to keep an eye on Clouseau. Knowles is eyeing the role of Xania, a pop singer whose suddenly dead boyfriend owned the rock.
