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Sigourney Weaver, Freida Pinto Attached To Thriller About An Assassin Forced To Undergo Gender-Reassignment Surgery

This sounds really, really problematic.

Walter Hill, veteran director of films like 48 Hrs. and Last Man Standing is attached to direct Tomboy, an upcoming action movie about a hitman who is double-crossed by gangsters and forced to undergo gender-reassignment surgery. Emerging as a hitwoman, she seeks revenge.

Okay, this seems like a really problematic idea: Transitioning as a fate worse than death?

Or at the very least, it sounds like some kind of bad Face/Off copy.

What's odder is that Sigourney Weaver and Freida Pinto are in negotiations to co-star, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Weaver
 would play the evil "doctor" who operates on the assassin, and Pinto a nurse with a secret of her own.

And before you ask: No, it doesn't look like producers are casting a trans woman to play the lead character. Cisgender actress Andrea Riseborough (Birdman) was in talks for the part but scheduling issues with her role on Netflix's Bloodline nixed that deal.

It's perhaps bitterly ironic that news about Tomboy came from the Toronto International Film Festival, where two movies—The Danish Girl and About Ray—feature trans main characters.

Of course, both are being portrayed by cis actors.

Pedro Almodóvar addressed the concept of a forced transition leading to revenge in 2011's The Skin I Live In , but the Spanish director is known for surreal flights of fancy that make barbed commentary on gender, sexuality and society.

The guy who gave us Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in a shoot-em-up buddy movie? Not so much.

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