Beals Joins “Book of Eli”

Denzel Washington’s upcoming post-apocolyptic thriller, “The Book of Eli” has added actress Jennifer Beal to the cast according to the Hollywood Reporter.  

Beals will play the blind mother of Milan Kunis’ Sonara, fighting to protect her daughter from the unwelcome advances of Gary Oldman’s small-town despot.

The script, by Gary Whitta with a rewrite by Anthony Peckham, centers on a lone hero named Eli (Washington) who must fight his way across the wasteland of a near-future America to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving humanity.

Principal photography begins next month in New Mexico.

Beals and Washington have worked together before in “Devil in a Blue Dress.”