Chris Evans attached to star in Lionsgate’s “Jekyll”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Chris Evans might be diversifying from his Captain America good-guy persona. Evans has come attached to play the lead role of Tom Jackman in “Jekyll”, the feature that Lionsgate is developing from the 2007 BBC One series, Deadline reports.

Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman are producing through their A Very Good Production banner, and scribe team Anthony Bagarozzi & Charles Mondry have written a script based on the Steven Moffat-scripted six-episode miniseries. Bagarozzi & Mondry teamed on the Shane Black-directed “The Nice Guys” and “Doc Savage,” as well as the remake of “Death Note.” No director yet.

This creates a potential collision course between projects sourced from the Robert Louis Stevenson public-domain novel about the doctor with the split personality. Universal’s classic monsters franchises set Russell Crowe to play the dual-personality doc, first in “The Mummy” opposite Tom Cruise and presumably as a stand-alone in a later film.