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Following the streaming success of her Netflix original film, Trigger Warning, Jessica Alba is returning to the action genre once again as the lead in a new spy thriller, The Mark.

Per Deadline, Alba is set to lead The Mark, a new action spy thriller from director Justin Chadwick. Written by Ronnie Christensen, The Mark follows Eden (Alba), an "enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission. When Eden pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage, his life is turned upside down," per the official synopsis. Currently, no other stars are attached to the project, but production on the film is set to begin in July. There is no official release window for The Mark.

After a five-year absence from movies, Alba returned to the limelight in 2024 with Trigger Warning, a Netflix original action movie that became a streaming success in the weeks after its release on the platform.

Deadline reports that Jessica Alba is set to star in The Mark, a spy thriller from director Justin Chadwick (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom). Production is slated to kick off in Australia in July from a script by Ronnie Christensen (Passengers).

Alba will play Eden, “an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission. When Eden pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage, his life is turned upside down. Mistaken for the world’s deadliest assassin, Ben becomes the perfect decoy for Eden. She uses the mix-up to expose a powerful network of corrupt politicians, placing Ben in the crosshairs of the CIA, Interpol, and ruthless crime syndicates. With enemies closing in from all sides, Eden must keep Ben alive long enough to complete her mission — while Ben must summon his inner action hero to stay alive and return to the person who matters most: his daughter.

Exclusive: Jessica Alba (Trigger Warning) has signed on to lead action thriller The Mark, a spy flick set to begin production in Australia in July.

In the film from director Justin Chadwick (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Alba plays Eden, an enigmatic spy on a covert and dangerous mission. When Eden pulls single father Ben Dawson into her world of high-stakes espionage, his life is turned upside down. Mistaken for the world’s deadliest assassin, Ben becomes the perfect decoy for Eden. She uses the mix-up to expose a powerful network of corrupt politicians, placing Ben in the crosshairs of the CIA, Interpol, and ruthless crime syndicates. With enemies closing in from all sides, Eden must keep Ben alive long enough to complete her mission — while Ben must summon his inner action hero to stay alive and return to the person who matters most: his daughter.

Ronnie Christensen penned the script.

Jurassic Park star, Sam Neill, recently revealed that he is undergoing treatment for stage 3 blood cancer. The New Zealand actor starred as paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster dinosaur action adventure. The actor later returned to the franchise, reprising his role for Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World Dominion, the third-highest-grossing film of 2022 behind Avatar: The Way of Water and Top Gun: Maverick respectively.

Neill recently spoke to the Guardian about his new memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? and discussed his diagnosis with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The Jurassic Park actor admitted that he began writing his memoirs as a way to keep busy during the chemotherapy treatment, but found that the book encouraged him to keep on fighting. Read what Neill said below:

I found myself with with nothing to do. And I’m used to working. I love working.