Female Bourne film in the works

Fan of Jason Bourne? Wish there was a female equivalent up there on the big screen?

Well, wish no more. Legion producers Bold Films have snapped up an action thriller spec script called Blank State , written by screen-team Doug Cook and David Wiseberg.

The plot is sort of a hybrid mix of La Femme Nikita and The Bourne Identity , with a brain-damaged female convict being implanted with the memories and special abilities of a recently-murdered female CIA agent.

Before you can say, "Um, is this really a good plan?”, the implanted convict has gone rogue, and sets off to try to unravel the mystery behind the murder herself.

It’s a fittingly daft-but-dementedly-cool-sounding premise – typical action thriller stuff in line with the big screen Mission: Impossible s. We’re betting that Bold Films want this to be their answer to Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Salt , which pitches the big-lipped beaut as a CIA agent on the run.

Scribes Cook and Wiseberg also wrote the entertaining if not brilliant The Rock and Double Jeopardy (above).

So who to play the female lead? On-the-rise Brit Gemma Arterton? Perhaps our favourite indie chick Ellen Page? Or how about Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard? All three have the emotional range to reign back this film’s potential for preposterousness...

Who would you cast?

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.