GONE GIRL Writer Teams With 12 YEARS A SLAVE Director For Heist Film WIDOWS

Gillian Flynn got my attention in a big way when she wrote the screenplay for David Fincher's Gone Girl as an adaptation of her own best-selling novel. She has adaptations of Utopia and Dark Places coming up, but it's her brand new project that I'm most excited about. THR says that Flynn is teaming up with 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen for a female-led heist thriller called Widows, and this story sounds like an awesome B-movie blast.

The movie is based on a British miniseries, which has a pretty stellar synopsis:

Dolly Rawlins, Linda Perelli and Shirley Miller have one thing in common - their husbands are all members of the same gang. After a terrible accident when their husbands are killed attempting to hold up a security van, for each of the women it is time to stop, take stock and start life afresh. When Dolly finds the plans for the robbery and with the women facing life alone, suppose they were to finish what their husbands started and carry out the robbery themselves?

How sweet is that? A group of badass women teaming up to do what their husbands couldn't? I dig it. And this movie will actually feature a fourth woman to go along with the other three. Flynn is apparently co-writing, though the outlet fails to mention with whom she'll be writing. No word yet on who might be starring, either, but feel free to go wild with suggestions in the comments. McQueen loves working with Michael Fassbender, so I can see him being one of the idiot robbers who gets killed early. What about Lupita Nyong'o as one of the widows? That'd be a cool change of pace from the massive budget of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.