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29 October 2015 - 14:17 AMT

Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver to star in a gender swap thriller

Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez is going under the knife in upcoming gender swap thriller Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale, Digital Spy reports.

She'll be playing an assassin who is forced into the hands of a rogue surgeon known as 'The Doctor' who turns him into a woman.

The assassin then sets out for revenge against the scalpel-wielding medic, who will be played by Sigourney Weaver.

Producer of the Alien films, Walter Hill will be directing from a script by Denis Hamill.

The thriller will kick off filming next month and has been slated for a 2017 release.

Rodriguez recently starred in Demi Lovato's music video for 'Confident' and also ate a mouse stewed in her own urine on Running Wild with Bear Grylls. As you do.

Weaver has just wrapped filming a cameo on the new Ghostbusters and has also signed up for the long-awaited Avatar 2.