Ellen Page could be your new comic book action star

For anyone wanting to see a woman in a leading role of a big summer blockbuster, 2013 was a particularly depressing year that left you with either Lois Lane and Faora in Man of Steel or Mako in Pacific Rim, all of whom played second fiddle to male co-stars. Better days may be on the way, however, with the news that the Queen & Country movie appears to be alive again — and, even better, Ellen Page is in reportedly in talks for the lead role.

For those unfamiliar with Queen & Country, it’s a spy series created by novelist and comic book writer Greg Rucka centered around Tara Chace, a operative of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. Appropriately, given Rucka’s dual career, it’s a series that has encompassed both comics — Queen & Country ran from 2001 through 2007, published by Oni Press and illustrated by a whole host of artists, including Daredevil‘s Chris Samnee and Finder’s Carla Speed McNeil — and prose, with the series’ most recent entry being in the form of The Last Run, a novel published in 2010.