Exclusive: Lifetime, which has built its original movie brand with biopics and films based on headline-making true stories, is venturing into the action thriller genre with Close Quarters, a telefilm from producer Gale Anne Hurd and Sony TV. Lifetime star Catherine Bell (Army Wives) toplines the movie, about Abby, a happy suburban wife and mother who has been concealing her dark past as a military-trained special-ops agent. But when her husband is mysteriously kidnapped, Abby's past returns to haunt her and she must risk everything to protect her daughter and save the man she loves. "It's turning her role in Army Wives on its head -- in this she is a capable special ops agent with a military background and expertise in technology who holds her ground in the action area," Hurd said, adding that the film for the first time will showcase Bell's extensive martial arts training. Tapped to...
- 11/10/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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