Chelsea Handler to star in new film "Mall"
(CBS) Chelsea Handler will set aside her trademark humor for a more serious role in the upcoming film "Mall."
Handler, 36, will star alongside "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" star Vincent D'Onofrio, who also produced the film with partners Erika Hampson and "The Collective's" Sam Maydew.
Deadline reports that Handler will play the dark role of a restless housewife in this adaptation of Eric Bogosian's 2001 novel "Mall." The film will mark the directing debut of Linkin Park member Joe Hahn.
D'Onofrio, who also wrote the script with Joe Vinciguerra and Sam Bisbee, will play a "voyeuristic businessman."
Bogosian will also appear in the film as a store owner.
"This film will be a comment on social violence," D'Onofrio said in a statement to Deadline. "It begins as a man walks through the front door of a suburban mall armed to the teeth, causing five strangers to embark on a night that will change them forever. As the bullets fly, one teenage boy hurtles through the night on a collision course with the man he will become."
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