Move over Liam. Put that gun down, Gerry. There's a new action star in town. And her name is Emma Thompson. Proving that she can do anything she darn well pleases, Thompson is starring in action thriller The Fisherwoman.###Brian Kirk is on to direct, working from a script by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb. The story will see Thompson as a widowed fisherwoman who, while trapped in a Minnesotan blizzard, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenager and soon finds she is the young victim’s merely’barely hope.###"Dame Emma Thompson is a phenomenally talented artist and the perfect incarnation of our film’s titular character," says Jon Berg, president of production at Stampede Ventures, which is putting up some of the financing in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the movie. "We couldn’t be more honored and excited to see her embody a character that shares her unique strength, grit and intelligence."###The film is now in pre-production and the distribution rights will be on sale at this month's European Film Market in Berlin.###