Amazon to Pick Up Action Driving Flick FUEL Starring Jurnee Smollett

In a heated bidding war, Amazon is in final talks to pick up the pitch for an action flick called Fuel that is set to star Jurnee Smollett, who has made her mark in the last year with Lovecraft Country and Birds of Prey. Smollett will executive produce the project along with Lovecraft Country EP Misha Green, as well as Kat Wood, who is set to write the film.

Deadline reports the plan for the project is “to develop this as a vehicle for Smollett to play a wheel woman, a fresh take on a familiar character. The film is an action-packed female empowerment story that will subvert the relationship between cars and masculinity. The heroine is a getaway driver who is coerced into working for a criminal and breaking all the rules she set out for herself.”

This sounds like a fun new role for Smollett, who is just great in everything she does. She can next be seen in the sci-fi thriller Escape From Spiderhead opposite Chris Hemsworth and Miles Teller, which is currently in post-production.