Katee Sackhoff became the object of vast amounts of geek lust playing Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica, before solidifying that with a key role in the final season of 24. Now she’s finding her feet in film, with a part in The Haunting In Georgia, which is currently film, and the lead in the just announced Sexy Evil Genius.
According to THR, the film is about ‘a group of strangers brought together in a downtown Los Angeles bar by their mutual ex-girlfriend (Sackhoff). The woman is mysterious about her intentions, but by the night’s end, revenge will be had, romance made and the wronged woman will have delivered on her reputation as the sexy evil genius at the centre of all their lives.’
The script was written by Scott Lew, who suffers from Motor Neuron Disease. He is a quadriplegic who can no longer speak, but communicate by moving an infrared dot attached to his head, and pointing it at words and letters. That’s how he wrote the script!
Writing is the only way I really get to express myself with complexity, he writes. When I started (the script), which was just over a year ago, I could still mumble a bit, so I dictated what I could and used my head to point out words that I couldn’t pronounce. That was a lot faster than now. I lost my speech completely in June of this year.
Sexy Evil Genius will be directed by Shawn PIller.