“The Kings of Summer” star Gabriel Basso is set to join Hailee Steinfeld and Samuel L. Jackson in the Brett Ratner-produced indie movie “Barely Lethal,” TheWrap has learned.
Kyle Newman (“Fanboys”) is directing the action-comedy from a script by John D’Arco.
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RKO Pictures and Hopscotch Pictures are producing with Ratner’s Rat Entertainment, whose John Cheng will executive produce.
Jessica Alba and Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones”) co-star in the film, which finds Steinfeld playing a 16-year-old assassin who fakes her own death in pursuit of a “normal” adolescence.