Got the pic from The Underground at mixedmartialarts.com. Here's a write-up from cinemaspy.com:
Steven Soderbergh wants to bring a sense of realism back to the action/spy genre, starting with the casting of mixed martial artist Gina Carano as his leading lady in his upcoming film, Knockout.
In Knockout, Carano will play a woman with incomparable hand-to-hand fighting skills, who gets hired by the government and subsequently involved in a globe-trotting plotline. Although the project may sound similar to James Bond or Jason Bourne's exploits, there will be more logic involved, especially with regards to high-speed pursuit, Soderbergh told MTV.
"Very, very few people escape high-speed pursuit," he said. "It happens, but it's very rare. So I've already researched the six times in history it's happened, so if we do that and she gets out of it, she's going to get out of it one of the ways they did. It's that kind of thing. It drives me nuts when I see a movie and I think the police presence would be so immediate. That sequence would be over in three minutes!"
Soderbergh has gone the non-traditional route before, casting porn actress Sasha Grey as the lead in The Girlfriend Experience. Carano, however, would only be the latest in a line of athletes who went on to be movie stars; for example, the 1991 action movie Stone Cold starred '80s football player Brian Bosworth.
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