Sigourney Weaver stars as a psychiatrist in "Abduction"

By Siewaun
Reference: Variety

Sigourney Weaver who recently starred in James Cameron's Avatar as Dr. Grace Augustine, leader of the Avatar program, will be playing a different kind of doctor this time in Lionsgate's thriller feature "Abduction," where she will star alongside Taylor Lautner "Twilight film series" and Lily Collins ("The Blind Side," "Priest").

Weaver will star as a psychiatrist to Lautner's character, a young man who finds a baby picture of himself on a missing persons website, and starting to realize that his parents are not his biological parents.

John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood," "Four Brothers") will direct from script written by Shawn Christensen.

Gotham Group, Vertigo Entertainment and Lautner's Tailor Made are co-producing the thriller with Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman of Gotham Group, Roy Lee and Doug Davison of Vertigo, and Tailor Made's Dan Lautner. Vertigo's Gabriel Mason executive producing.

Shooting is scheduled to begin in July in Pittsburgh.