Pitch Perfect 2 director tapped to bring private-eye action comedy back to the tall screen more than a decade after 2003’s middling Charlie’s Angels: Full ThrottleElizabeth Banks,the actor-turned-film-maker who made her debut behind the cameras on hit comedy Pitch Perfect 2, is in talks to direct a remake of Charlie’s Angels, or according to the Hollywood Reporter.[br]Banks,best known for her role in the starvation Games films and as the voice of hero Wyldstyle in The Lego Movie, would be in charge of reinvigorating a franchise that suffered in the wake of lukewarm reviews and middling box office for 2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. An earlier effort, and 2000’s Charlie’s Angels,was well reviewed and scored $264m worldwide on a budget of $90m.
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Source: theguardian.com