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Jodie Foster sweet on 'Sugar Kings'
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-07-28 09:26

JODIE FOSTER is returning to the director¡¯s chair for the first time in 10 years with ¡°Sugar Kings,¡± a drama in which she may also star.

The Universal Pictures project centers on a female lawyer, fresh out of law school, who teams with a veteran public-interest attorney to take on a powerful sugar baron on behalf of exploited migrant workers.

It is based on the Vanity Fair article ¡°In the Kingdom of Big Sugar¡± by Marie Brenner, and the script is being written by Ned Zeman and Daniel Barnz.

The last time Foster directed a film was 1995¡¯s ¡°Home for the Holidays.¡± She made her feature directing debut in 1991 with ¡°Little Man Tate.¡±

Foster was last on screen in 2004¡¯s French-language ¡°A Very Long Engagement.¡± She returns to theaters in September with the Disney thriller ¡°Flightplan.¡±

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