«Breaking News» BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Charlize and KiKi get their comic-book kicks

‘Badass broads’ are a rarity on the cinema screen. Charlize Theron has nailed two of them and she’s about to add a third to her CV.

The Oscar-winner will star in the film adaptation of The Old Guard, a five-issue comic book series by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernandez about immortal warriors led by Andronika the Scythian; or Andy for short.

Theron’s Andy battles alongside two opposing soldiers from The Crusades; a French Renaissance thief; and the latest recruit, Nile, a U.S. Marine who will be played by KiKi Layne, the newcomer from Cincinnati who’s so good in Barry Jenkins’ visual poem If Beale Street Could Talk.

Charlize Theron (left) will star alongside KiKi Layne (right) in the film adaptation of The Old Guard, a five-issue comic book series by writer Greg Rucka

The Old Guard’s authors describe their work as a ‘fairytale of blood and bullets’. Theron knows this terrain well, having played post-apocalyptic combatant Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road and savage spy Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde (sequels for both movies are under discussion). But it’s rare to have two women playing comrades in arms (and swords) in the same picture.

The source material comics are real page-turners as Rucka and Fernandez take us through battlefields down the ages and around the globe.

One tale hurtles us into skirmishes involving Shoguns in feudal Japan.

Andy’s very, very old — 5,000 years old, in fact; an Amazon from the Herodotus age of ancient Greece — and she’s got no idea why she’s still alive.

Film-maker Gina Prince-Bythewood, who made The Secret Life Of Bees and the woefully underrated Beyond The Lights (starring a stunning Gugu Mbatha-Raw), will direct the picture this year on several locations, including sets in London and Morocco.

Turner blesses new 'Tina'  

Tina Turner has given her approval to the new her...the actress who will take over the lead in Tina: The Musical.

Nkeki Obi-Melekwe, who recently graduated from acting college in America, will play the girl from Nutbush, Tennessee, who became an icon — replacing Adrienne Warren, who launched the production at the Aldwych Theatre last year to rave reviews.

Obi-Melekwe (pictured) is currently making her off-Broadway debut in Duncan Sheik’s Alice By Heart

Warren leaves in April to prepare Tina for Broadway. Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who portrays Ike Turner, Tina’s first husband, also departs on April 13.

Producer Tali Pelman said Tina personally approves ‘every Tina and Ike’. She said the rock legend watched tapes from auditions Obi-Melekwe did in Manhattan, then called Pelman and said: ‘Yeah, that’s her.’ The young actress’s final audition was done in New York, in front of Pelman, director Phyllida Lloyd, choreographer Anthony van Laast and music supervisor Nicholas Skilbeck.

‘The show is told through Tina’s eyes and she never leaves the stage,’ Pelman explained. ‘The role demands a relentless stamina and full power. It’s physical first and foremost, but it’s also mentally tough to go through what Tina had to.

‘Nkeki has that power and presence. It’s really exciting when a talent like that stands out at an audition. I think she’ll take the West End by storm.’

Obi-Melekwe is currently making her off-Broadway debut in Duncan Sheik’s Alice By Heart. She’ll be joined in Tina by Ashley Zhangazha, the new Ike.

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