Famed filmmaker Luc Besson is up to his old tricks once again, for his latest project featuring a femme fatale with both looks and moves that could kill. In her motion picture debut, Russian supermodel Sasha Luss stars in ANNA, an upcoming action-thriller vehicle that centers on the exploits of Anna Poliatova, a secretive and striking beauty that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Joining Luss for Besson's latest balls-to-the-wall roller coaster ride are Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, Luke Evans, Lera Abova, Alexander Petrov, and Anna Krippa. Besson will serve as both the film's director and writer, thereby securing a bit of that NIKITA and THE FIFTH ELEMENT flare. The trailer makes no bones about showcasing one of the film's more intense action sequences, wherein Anna dispatches a hotel lobby filled to the brim with inadequate henchmen. Some might consider Besson to be something of a "long bet" these days, though I must admit that after watching Charlize Theron change the game in David Leitch's ATOMIC BLONDE, I am very much game for another killer of men to enter the fray.
ANNA is set to strut into theaters on July 10th.