She’s tackled mad Spartans and killer robots from the future. But now our very own Lena Headey is about to face her biggest challenge: directing.
The 35 year-old 300 star will make her directorial debut on** Kill Drug**, a dark thriller about an underground society dedicated to murdering society’s ingrates, nincompoops and scallywags.
The low-budget British thriller follows Sally, the daughter of Sue, a woman who murders her abusive husband in the 70s and then goes on to found a vigilante network in present-day London. When Sally is recruited into the gang, along with two men, she discovers that all is not as it seems, and that absolute power may have corrupted her mother absolutely.
“My ambition to direct has been fuelled over the last fifteen
years, by working alongside great directors. It has also been my
film education,” says Headey, who’s been attached to the project, formerly known as Retribution, for a while.
“Kill Drug is smart, articulate, compelling, sexy, fun, dark, deeply poignant and not afraid to laugh at itself,” she continues. “Above all it is a gripping and compelling journey, a study of humanity’s darkest flaws and purest innocence.”
Headey will probably take a small role in the film, but that of Sally remains to be cast. Jason Flemyng and Charlotte Rampling are also attached to the Tom Bacon-scripted movie, which will start shooting in January of next year. Plenty of time until then, so keep ‘em peeled for updates.