True Grit star Hailee Steinfeld is set to star in a new action comedy called Barely Lethal. The film is being directed by Kyle Newman from a script written by John D'Arco.
Steinfeld will play a 16-year-old international assassin named Megan who is raised at a boarding school that trains kids to be assassins. She has a quirky sense of humor but is clueless about normal life. She ends up faking her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school, where she discovers dealing with popularity is just as hard as living life as an assassin.
Steinfeld is a fantastic young actress who will be next seen in the following films, Can a Song Save Your Life?, Romeo and Juliet, Ender's Game, The Homesman and Three Days to Kill.
Source: Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/hailee-steinfeld-barely-lethal-starring-role/)