TOMB RAIDER is the female BOURNE

Variety, the studio have tapped up the actress to lead what they will hope will be a new action/thriller franchise based on intelligence operative Kathi Lynn Austin. The deal see's Paramount now with exclusive privileges to the life rights to Austin and once the strike is complete they will find a writer who can put together a script in the same vein as the BOURNE movies.

Austin, who has most recently worked on contract for the U.N. Security Council, has undertaken field missions in Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Central America. The drama will focus on a fictional arms dealer inspired by Victor Bout, the shadowy Russian who is considered one of the world's most prolific dealers in illegal munitions.

A female BOURNE flick? Yeah sure, why not. I like Angelina as a action star and I sometimes wish that those TOMB RAIDER movies had been handled by someone who knew what the hell they were doing. And after all, is their any hotter an actress holding a gun...