Emma Thompson Starring in ‘The Fisherwoman’

Emma Thompson to Star in Action Thriller ‘The Fisherwoman’

She’ll play a woman who interrupts a kidnapping and must help a young girl. We’re ready for kick-ass Thompson.

Emma Thompson as the Baroness in Disney’s live-action 'Cruella.'

For the last few years, we’ve watched the likes of Liam Neeson and Bob Odenkirk join the ranks of older actors getting into the action game already populated by the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

But even more recently, there has been Allison Janney, who kicked ass as a former CIA operative-turned-recluse in ‘Lou’.

And further proof that we’re in for a shift is word that Emma Thompson entering the fray.

Variety reports that Dame Emma is now aboard to star in a new action thriller called ‘The Fisherwoman’. She’ll play a widowed fisherwoman who, while trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s only hope.

Brian Kirk is directing this one. A veteran of both TV and movies, he helped launch Idris Elba drama ‘Luther’ and has directed episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’. On the movie side, he’s been behind the likes of ‘Middletown’ and Chadwick Boseman cop thriller ’21 Bridges’.

The script comes from writers Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb, who recently landed a deal to come up with a ‘Hot Wheels’ movie for J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot company and Warner Bros. They’re also working on alien invasion movie ‘The Fall’.

Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in 'Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.'

“Dame Emma Thompson is a phenomenally talented artist and the perfect incarnation of our film’s titular character,” says Jon Berg, president of production at Stampede Ventures, which is one of the companies backing the movie. “We couldn’t be more honored and excited to see her embody a character that shares her unique strength, grit and intelligence.”

Thompson is also an executive producer on the movie, the rights to which will be offered up to buyers at the European Film Market, which happens later this month.

It’s not exactly the sort of film that we expected Thompson to pick, though the multi-talented, award winning actor, writer and producer can do anything she likes. Just this year alone, she was seen in ‘Good Luck, Leo Grande’ and the ‘Matilda’ musical movie as the villainous Miss Trunchbull.

Coming up, she has rom com ‘What’s Love Got to Do with it?’ (nothing to do with the Tina Turner biopic of the 1990s) and a variety of projects in development, including ‘Road Narrows’, and a new adaptation of ‘My Fair Lady’.

And who hasn’t watched ‘Love Actually’ and imagined Thompson’s character wiping away her tears upon confirming her husband’s (played by Alan Rickman) infidelity and thrown him from a building as with Rickman’s ‘Die Hard’ villain?