Several months ago we reported that Katherine Heigl had been signed to star as Stephanie Plum in the film adaptation of One for the Money, the first book in the popular mystery series by Janet Evanovich. Now Variety is reporting that the two male leads for the film have been cast. Jason O'Mara (Life on Mars) will play Joe Morelli, a former vice cop now wanted for murder; and Daniel Sunjata (Rescue Me) will play bounty hunter Ranger, Stephanie Plum's on-again / off-again romantic interest.
Lionsgate recently acquired the US rights to the film, which is set to begin production this July.
The 16th "numbered" book in the series, Sizzling Sixteen, is scheduled to be published next month.
About One for the Money (from the publisher): Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash -- fast -- but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family.
Stephanie lands a gig at her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bonding company. She's got no experience. But that doesn't matter. Neither does the fact that the bail jumper in question is local vice cop Joe Morelli. From the time he first looked up her dress to the time he first got into her pants to the time Steph hit him with her father's Buick, M-o-r-e-l-l-i has spelled t-r-o-u-b-l-e. And now the hot guy is in hot water -- wanted for murder.
Abject poverty is a great motivator for learning new skills, but being trained in the school of hard knocks by people like psycho prizefighter Benito Ramirez isn't. Still, if Stephanie can nab Morelli in a week, she'll make a cool ten grand. All she has to do is become an expert bounty hunter overnight -- and keep herself from getting killed before she gets her man.
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