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Allison Janney boards The Girl on the Train

October 30, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Variety is reporting that Allison Janney is set to reunite with director Tate Taylor on the upcoming thriller The Girl on the Train, where she’ll play a police detective. Janney has previously collaborated with Taylor on all of his projects, appearing in Pretty Ugly People, The Help and Get on Up, as well as the 2003 short Chicken Party.

SEE ALSO: Justin Theroux to replace Chris Evans in The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train “follows a woman (played by Emily Blunt) devastated by her recent divorce who spends her commute fantasizing about a seemingly perfect married couple who live in a house that her train passes every day. Along the way, she becomes entangled in a mystery revolving around the couple.”

The Girl on the Train will open in theaters on October 7th 2016, with a cast that also includes Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), Jared Leto (Suicide Squad), Justin Theroux (The Leftovers), Haley Bennett (The Equalizer) and Édgar Ramírez (Joy).

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Originally published October 30, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Allison Janney, The Girl on The Train

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer who is the Editor-in-Chief of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature 'The Baby in the Basket' and suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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