Jessica Alba goes INVISIBLE again

Jessica Alba who butchered the Fantastic Four's Sue Storm (aka The Invisible Woman) in the two movie adaptations of Marvel's longest running family has signed on to star in An Invisible Sign of My Own according to Variety. It's a dreaded Jessica Alba starring vehicle and that is not something to get excited about. Her recent run of flops, Awake, The Eye, The Love Guru and Good Luck Chuck have made her box office poison. It's based on the novel by Aimee Bender which is far more detailed than the trades small blurb but I've tried to cut it down as much as I can...

An Invisible Sign of My Own tells the story of Mona Gray, a math wiz and a high school track star, whose ordinary childhood comes to pieces when her father is stricken with a mysterious illness.. Instead of working out her problems, Mona develops a habit of knocking on wood, and sometimes knocks for an hour before getting to sleep. Eating soap is her other dark indulgence: a surefire anti-aphrodisiac that she calls on whenever she feels sexually attracted to a man. At 20, Mona is recruited to teach math at the local elementary school. To her surprise, she is a brilliant teacher, making addition and subtraction tangible to second graders with a game called Numbers and Materials, in which the students bring in natural or man-made objects that take the form of numbers. When 7-year-old Lisa Venus brings in a zero made of IV tubing from her dying mother's hospital room, Mona recognizes a kindred spirit. But she will have to be healthy herself to help Lisa resist her urge to take on her mother's illness out of grief and loyalty.

Silverwood Films and iDeal Partners Film Fund closed a financing deal for the pic over the weekend at the Toronto Film Festival.

The movie will begin filming next month from director Marilyn Agrelo (Mad Hot Ballroom) from a script by the guys behind The Wedding Planner. Discuss: Is Jessica Alba's only worthy contribution to cinema when she was dancing on a pole in Sin City?