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November 24, 2008
Just days after it was announced that Punisher: War Zone producer Gale Anne Hurd would produce a big screen version of the Arcana comic book Gearhead comes word of who she would like to see star in the film.
Gearhead writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Kevin Mellon informed MTV that Hurd suggested Juno and Hard Candy star Ellen Page would be good for the movie. Page is no stranger to comic book films, having previously portrayed Kitty Pryde, a.k.a. Shadowcat, in X-Men: The Last Stand.
Mellon said he "designed Shelby as an amalgam of a couple of different Hollywood actresses and a few women I've known in my life, and Ellen has a lot of all of their qualities in spades. ... If I'd seen Hard Candy before working on Gearhead, I'd probably have modeled Shelby more on Ellen to begin with."
In Gearhead, a young woman teams up with a group of rebels to fight the corrupt superheroes who govern the United States. She must rise to the challenge of her destiny and become Gearhead.
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