Tom Cruise pulling off some crazy stunts in Mission: Impossible-Rogue Nation? That's to be expected, but nobody foresaw just how badass his co-star Rebecca Ferguson would be. And the role has gained her a lot of attention and offers around Hollywood, including a potential role in Gambit opposite Channing Tatum. But it turns out she won't be joining the mutant film at all, choosing to turn it down for Tate Taylor's adaptation of best-seller, The Girl On the Train.
According to Deadline, Ferguson has joined Emily Blunt in the thriller based on Paula Hawkins' novel. She'll take the role of Anna, one of the three key roles in the film about a woman who sees something deadly occur at the idyllic home she passes on her daily commute. Here's the book's complete synopsis:
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?
There's still one more major part left to be cast and that will likely be locked up soon as this one is being seen as possibly the next Gone Girl.
