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Charlize Theron and Niki Caro team up for film

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CHARLIZE Theron and Niki Caro are teaming up on a surfer equality film for streaming giant Netflix.

The 45-year-old actress and producer and the 54-year-old filmmaker’s flick for the streaming giant is set to centre on four female athletes’ fight for equality in big wave surfing.

According to Variety, the film will be based on Daniel Duane’s New York Times Magazine piece, “The Fight For Gender Equality In One of the Most Dangerous Sports on Earth”.

The feature will tell the story of surfers Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Paige Alms and Keala Kennelly and their battle to compete in the maledomina­ted sport.

Theron will serve as producer, Caro is set to helm the flick, and the screenplay has been adapted by Becky Johnston.

Meanwhile, Theron recently revealed she would love to make a lesbian Die Hard reboot.

The screen star responded to a fan on Twitter pitching her for a gender-swopped remake of the 1988 Bruce Willis blockbuste­r which would see the lead character “on a rampage to save her wife”, and she confirmed she’d definitely be interested.

She said: “Yeah, I mean, it’s a great idea. That’s why I replied on Twitter. Because I just thought that was kind of brilliant.

“I was like, ‘This person needs to start pitching. That’s a great idea.' And the fact that it would be two women, I was like, ‘Yeah, sign me on’.”

Theron is also producing the sequel to 2017’s Atomic Blonde and horror Two Eyes Staring.

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