Magdalena Gets Director and Screenwriter

Jenna Dewan will star as the title character in the live action adaptation of the Top Cow comic-book Magdalena with Luke Goss is set to play the villain. For those who have followed the production, that much has been known since July 22 of 2008. Now, a year to the day later, Variety has reported that Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train) has signed on to direct.

Set to script the adventures of the ultimate warrior nun is Holly Brix. I don't know much about her as a writer. But according to her IMDB page, her credits include The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations, Lost Girls, and Mile Zero - along with a few others currently in development.

For me, Magdalena is one of those properties that can come out of nowhere and knock people's socks off. With the gorgeous, charismatic and talented Jenna Dewan as the lead, I have high hopes. Not only can a movie make the character well known, but if done to it's potential, I'd expect Dewans star to skyrocket.

To learn more of the Magdalena character's origin and powers, check out her wikipedia page here.