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The Hollywood Reporter -- Helen Mirren is going to do her first comic book movie.

The Oscar winner has signed to play an assassin in "Red," Summit Entertainment's adaptation of the Wildstorm/DC Comics miniseries. Robert Schwenke is directing.

Mirren joins Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman in the tale of a former black-ops agent (Willis), now in retirement, who has to contend with younger, more high-tech assassins who show up to kill him. Mirren plays an old associate of Willis with a lethal set of skills.

Mirren has several films in the can, including "The Tempest," Julie Taymor's take on the Shakespearean play, Mossad thriller "The Debt," and "Love Ranch," a drama directed by her husband, Taylor Hackford.

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