海莉·斯坦菲尔德加入动作惊悚片《台词人生》

    Hailee Steinfeld has been cast in “Term Life,” Universal’s adaptation of an Image graphic novel starring Vince Vaughn.

    Peter Billingsley is directing the action comedy, which Vaughn is producing with Micah Mason and Victoria Vaughn via the actor’s Wild West Picture Show Productions banner.

    The graphic novel by A.J. Lieberman (who also wrote the adaptation) and Nick Thornborrow centers on a low-life whom everybody — including mob bosses, contract killers and dirty cops — wants dead. In a rare act of selflessness (and desperation), the man takes out a million-dollar term life insurance policy to benefit his estranged daughter, but soon after, he realizes it doesn’t take effect for 21 days. The story, laid out in nonlinear fashion, focus on the man’s efforts to make it to the finish line while trying to be a responsible father for the first time.

    Steinfeld will play Vaughn’s character’s daughter.

    Vice president of production Kristin Lowe is overseeing the project for Universal.

    Steinfeld, who was nominated for an Oscar at the age of 14 for her performance in “True Grit” opposite Jeff Bridges, will soon be seen as the title character in “Romeo and Juliet.” She also co-stars in “Ender’s Game” and John Carney’s “Can a Song Save Your Life,” which the Weinstein Company acquired in a heated bidding war at the Toronto International Film Festival.(SD-Agencies)