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GARNER EXCITED ABOUT ELEKTRA
13 APRIL 2004

Jennifer Garner told Sci Fi Wire that she's about to start work on ELEKTRA, in which she will reprise her DAREDEVIL role as the sleek and sexy assassin Elektra Natchios. "Elektra has a rich, rich story in the comic books, particularly in Frank Miller's saga for her," Garner said in an interview. "We definitely mine the hell out of it."

The ALIAS and 13 GOING ON 30 actress added, "Elektra is a very dark character, so this will not be a sunshine movie. I've been training for ELEKTRA for a couple of months. I've added Pilates in because I'm trying to make sure that everything is flexible and mobile and ready to go. Remarkably, my trainer for the last three years, Valerie Waters, has kept me pretty amazingly flexible through all this stuff that we've done. So I am in training and we start shooting in the beginning of May, right after we finish on ALIAS for the season." Rob Bowman, director of THE X FILES movie and numerous episodes of the TV series, will be behind the camera on ELEKTRA, which be released in early 2005.