Zoë Bell to direct untitled action comedy ‘Boss ***** Fight" for Lionsgate

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Source: Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has picked up an action comedy pitch from writers Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Mamrie Hart for Zoë Bell to direct, inspired by the stuntwoman’s viral short film Boss ***** Fight Challenge.

The new project will be produced by Rob Tapert and Romel Adam alongside Rock Shaink and Dash Aiken for Romark Entertainment. Smith and Hart will also executive produce. In the short, Bell is home and bored during the pandemic lockdown, and picks a fight with her Boss ***** friends. Glorious mayhem ensues.

Meredith Wieck and Scott O’Brien will oversee the project for Lionsgate. The deal was negotiated on behalf of the studio by Bonnie Stylides.

Bell began her filmmaking career with producer Tapert on the cult TV classic Xena: Warrior Princess. She then continued on to forge a decades-long collaboration with two-time Oscar winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino as a stuntwoman and actress in films such as Kill Bill and Death Proof, and most recently she was the stunt coordinator for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, becoming one of a very few women to head up the stunts for a major Hollywood production. As an actress, she starred in Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, and Death Proof.