Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron (Monster, 2003) is set to star in and produce French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s English-language debut Dark Places, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best selling 2009 novel of the same name.

According to the Exclusive Media press release:

Charlize Theron will play Libby Day, a woman who, at the age of 7, survives the massacre of her family and testifies against her brother as the murderer.

Twenty-five years later, a group obsessed with solving notorious crimes confronts her with questions about the horrific event.

In Flynn’s novel, Libby grows to become a total mess and agrees to help the group, called The Kill Club, re-investigate the crime in a scheme to profit from her tragedy. Theron is always fun to stare at, but she especially kills it when portraying damaged people (i.e. Aileen Wuornos in Monster, Mavis Gary in Young Adult).

Theron, who is coming off Snow White and the Huntsman and Prometheus, will next be seen in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment in the franchise made famous by Academy Award winning actor and blow-job enthusiast Mel Gibson.