Ellen Page In Talks To Play 'Tara Chace' In QUEEN AND COUNTRY

Ellen Page In Talks To Play 'Tara Chace' In QUEEN AND COUNTRY

Variety report that the X-Men: Days Of Future Past actress's next movie will also be a CBM; a big screen adaptation of Greg Rucka's acclaimed spy comic Queen And Country. Click on for more..

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By MarkCassidy - Sep 09, 2013 11:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: Variety



From Kitty Pryde to Tara Chase -- it seems Ellen Page will get her spy on as the protagonist of Queen And Country for Fox after she's reprised her Mutant role for Bryan Singer's X-flick. According to Variety the studio has been looking for a franchise for the young actress for a while now, and this has the potential set Page up as a sort of female Jason Bourne. I'm not familiar with Greg Rucka's comic series (which is set in the modern world of Britain's MI6), but I'm hearing that Page is seen as quite a strange choice to play the tough-as-nails Chase..though I would steer anyone thinking that to her work in Hard Candy! Peter Chernin is producing through his Chernin Entertainment banner, along with Jenno Topping. John Rogers is writing the script.

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DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 9/9/2013, 12:10 PM
Queen and Country flick? Cool.
Swiftsword777
Swiftsword777 - 9/9/2013, 12:14 PM
Never heard of it
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/9/2013, 12:18 PM
But she's not British! What next, a Brit playing Superman?
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/9/2013, 12:25 PM
^^ lmao
gambgel
gambgel - 9/9/2013, 12:26 PM
dont know the comic, but this is awesome news!

Ellen as the lead in an action/spy movie?? Count me IN!!!!!!!!!
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/9/2013, 12:28 PM
Yes, clearly I'm the dumbass...
ComicsToFilm
ComicsToFilm - 9/9/2013, 12:33 PM
@MrSundayNight-I know sarcasm isn't the easiest thing to pick up on in comments, but I'm confident Rex was joking dumbass.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/9/2013, 12:34 PM
I now sarcasm isn't always easy to spot in print..but man that's hard to miss!
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/9/2013, 12:34 PM
Next you'll try to tell me Ror isn't really a mailman from Boston. By the way Ror, if Cavill is from Jersey do you consider him to be English, or some other demonym (sort of how we New Yorkers consider Americans from NEW Jersey as second-class citizens)?
Greengo
Greengo - 9/9/2013, 12:43 PM
@Rex: To your point, I hear that some English people view the Welsh and the Irish as second-class citizens.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 9/9/2013, 12:45 PM
A really talented actress.
Hard Candy is one of my favourite movies and she was so so so great in that.

I've always wanted her to have more action roles.
She's a good choice for this!
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 9/9/2013, 12:47 PM
I'm British and I really don't care that she'll be an American playing a Brit.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/9/2013, 12:48 PM
I can't for the life of me understand how the Scots and Northern Irish even put up with being British citizens. The Welsh have bigger problems, like how they speak a longer, more complicated form of Old Entish.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/9/2013, 12:53 PM
I had a feeling you weren't American, Cherry. Not nearly rude enough. I suspected Canadian, though. Maybe we should all have little flags next to our names so we Muricans can tell who the evil foreigners are. Hey, did you name yourself after that Ash song? (I think I'm the only American who's ever heard of them.)
Enphlieuwince
Enphlieuwince - 9/9/2013, 12:54 PM
Got my vote. Love her work!
Enphlieuwince
Enphlieuwince - 9/9/2013, 12:56 PM
She would made a great Saya in a live action Blood: The Last Vampire. A etter version than the garbage that was made...
Enphlieuwince
Enphlieuwince - 9/9/2013, 12:57 PM
better*
Ineedrevelation
Ineedrevelation - 9/9/2013, 1:10 PM
what?
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 9/9/2013, 1:16 PM
God, I hope they make her blonde!
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/9/2013, 1:22 PM
Brits doing yank accents is one thing..but the other way around always sounds a bit off imo. I mean Natalie Portman was great in V For Vendetta for example, but that accent..woah.
DaveT
DaveT - 9/9/2013, 1:27 PM
The comic is not at all like Bond or Bourne. It does for spy stories what movies like Platoon did for war movies. It's set in a very real world seeming environment where spies are seen as useful but ultimately disposable tools by their governments and generally end up traumatized or dead or at least generally unhappy. It's a great series heavily "inspired" by a 1980's filmed on video tape BBC series called "Sandbaggers" I think it;d be so much better as a TV show though because it's all about characters and how they react to the action more than it is the actual action. If they make it so it works as an action movie it will kind of gut what the comic (and a couple of tie in novels) had going for it. Still...best wishes to them. I'll go see it.
CptHero
CptHero - 9/9/2013, 2:00 PM
" this has the potential set Page up as a sort of female Jason Bourne"
No. Just no.
seantwakafilmyguy
seantwakafilmyguy - 9/9/2013, 2:16 PM
She can act, man. She was absolutely hilarious and great in Super.
nikgrid
nikgrid - 9/9/2013, 2:26 PM
For those who don't know the comic go buy a TPB it's just fantastic! Rucka is awesome. She's not a bad choice as long as she can do a british accent.
nikgrid
nikgrid - 9/9/2013, 2:26 PM
Oh duh... English Accent.
Kyos
Kyos - 9/9/2013, 2:59 PM
I agree with DaveT in thinking that the comics would be better material for a high budget TV show. And while it's been a while since I read the comics and I do like Ellen Page a lot I really don't think she'd be the best choice for the role. We'll see.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 9/9/2013, 3:14 PM
Page is such a cutie! Loved her in Super and Juno.
gambgel
gambgel - 9/9/2013, 3:22 PM
Page going blond would be..... you know, it could be interesting :D

you know... why not! lets do it, Ellen! hahaha
gambgel
gambgel - 9/9/2013, 5:37 PM
the pic of the article is old.

I can really tell she has aged a bit after all these years, looking at recent pics and videos.
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 9/9/2013, 6:05 PM
This sounds really interesting. The brilliant thing is no one would expect a girl like Ellen Page to be a government agent.

That would give her an advantage against her enemies.

@Ror That's one of the big reasons why I would have a problem with an American actor playing James Bond.

I'm American, and sometimes just for fun I trick people into thinking I'm visiting the states by speaking with an accent lol. And doing an English accent is one of the harder ones. I have a deep voice, so when I speak with an English accent I tailor it after Jude Law.

Sometimes it goes from sounding English to Australian though.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 9/9/2013, 7:43 PM
It goes both ways. Even the Brits that do amazing American accents like Hugh Laurie and Cary Elwes don't sound like they're from anywhere. It's a generic American accent that doesn't really exist. It's probably the same problem with American actors. RDJ and Gwyneth Paltrow can do received pronunciation, but probably not a genuine regional accent.

I'd like to hear more bad American accents. They're pretty funny. Most of Monty Python did lousy yank accents.
CPBuff22
CPBuff22 - 9/9/2013, 10:21 PM
I LOVE Ellen Page... that is all.
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