#BBB NEWS| Lupita Nyong’o And Ava DuVernay In Talks For Sci-Fi Thriller

Just two months after Lupita Nyong’o voiced Maz Kanata in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, another sci-fi flick might be in her future.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, not only are executives talking with Nyong’o to star in the thriller Intelligent Life, but they also want Ava DuVernay to direct the picture.

The movie, which is a redo of a project previously helmed by Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, chronicles the journey of a U.N. worker who represents humans in the event of alien contact.

Eventually, the employee falls in love with a woman who is an alien. Reportedly, Nyong’o would play the woman in the middle of the extraterrestrial contact.

#BBB NEWS| Lupita Nyong’o & Viola Davis Strip Down In Intimate ‘Vanity Fair’ Portraits [PHOTOS]

Vanity Fair’s annual Hollywood issue has arrived, and on this year’s cover the publication features a number of “acclaimed, stunning actresses across multiple generations.” Credit: Vanity Fair/Annie Leibovitz

Photographed by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, five of this year’s best-actress Oscar nominees—Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, Brie Larson, and Charlotte Rampling—icons like Jane Fonda, Helen Mirren, Viola Davis, and Diane Keaton, up-and-comers likeAlicia Vikander and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Lupita Nyong’o, pose for a powerful photo that reads women empowerment to the fullest.