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Landing her second big screen stint in Hollywood, Jennifer Hudson is set to star in Unruly Films' dramatic feature "Winged Creatures", a film adaptation of Roy Freirich's novel of the same title, Hollywood Wiretap has reported.

Placed together with the likes of Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Jackie Earle Haley, and Dakota Fanning in the cast, here the Oscar-winning actress will be billed to play the daughter of a character portrayed by fellow Oscar winner Forest Whitaker. Film's story follows the witnesses to a brutal murder suicide in a fast food restaurant as they cope with the aftermath of the incident and how they affect the people who help them along the way.

Filming is currently being carried out in Los Angeles for a planned 2008 release under the direction of Rowan Woods who directs from the script written by Freirich. Brinton Bryan and Katie Carroll are both serving as second assistant director with Robert Salerno producing.