A project in development for at least three years now, finally looks like its getting some forward momentum.
Elijah Wood is set to star in the indie noir “Black Wings Has My Angel,” based on the celebrated but obscure pulp novel by journalist Elliott Chaze. In the film, Wood will play an ex-con who “stages a daring armored-car robbery in Colorado with the help of a call girl he picked up in a backwoods Mississippi motel.”
According to an Amazon review, the lead character of Tim Sunblade is “a quintessential antihero and “an unrepentant bastard.” This will definitely be a change of pace for Wood who is largely known for being a hobbit and still looks like he’s twelve years old. That said, no one could have imagined his creepy turn in “Sin City” so we’ll give the benefit of the doubt in being able to pull off the hard-boiled role.
The film will be written and directed by Alfonso “Poncho” Ulloa who is making his English language feature debut.