Painkiller Jane (2005 film)

A Special Forces unit, known as the Painkiller Unit, is exposed to a biochemical weapon while on a mission in Sovetskaia, Chechnya. While attempting to retreat, the entire unit is ambushed and executed by a group of armed men in protective hazmat suits. One member of the unit, Captain Jane Browning (Emmanuelle Vaugier), not only survives the execution, but recovers from the viral infection and develops an abnormally rapid healing factor, increased dexterity, speed, strength, enhanced senses, mental abilities, and a photographic memory.

Jane is studied by a Dr. Graham Knight, who later reveals himself to be Captain Lucas Insley. He claims to be investigating her superior officer, Col. Ian Watts, who has created the fake identity of Peter Erfan, the man who ostensibly created the virus she was exposed to. Insley later admits that he is, in fact, Peter Erfan, and has a vial of liquid which he has extracted from Jane. Erfan refers to her as the new Eve, as something in her body altered the virus and then the virus changed her. This is why she survived but the rest of her unit did not.

While they are talking, an assassin starts to move in on Jane, who shoots him. However, Erfan has already been able to recreate the modified virus, and has given it to the assassin. As he is talking with her, the assassin gets up, rips a power box off the wall, and hits Jane on the head with it.

The final scene sees a group of Asian gentlemen walk into a laboratory and meet with Lucas Insley. He holds a vial of green fluid, the genetic material for the enhancement virus in a solution. The implication is that Erfan took the serum himself, allowing him to survive an impact with a river after apparently having fallen, and will soon be creating an army of superhumans for the unnamed Asian business partner.

• Emmanuelle Vaugier as Captain Jane Elizabeth Browning
  • Paula Brancati as young Jane
• Eric Dane as Nick Pierce
• Richard Roundtree as Colonel Ian Watts - Jane's supervising officer
• Nels Lennarson as Agent Thorpe
• Richard Harmon as Squeak
• Tate Donovan as Dr. Graham Knight / Lucas Insley
• Venus Terzo as Carla Browning - Jane's sister
  • Elicia Mackenzie as young Carla

In an interview with Moviepilot, Palmiotti is in progressing on a new film.[1] In November 2016, Deadline reports that Jessica Chastain has signed on to star as Jane Vasko in the big screen with Lotus Entertainment's Lenny Beckerman producing along with Solipsist Films' Stephen L’Heureux and Chastain through her Freckle Films banner. Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, Ara Keshishian and Palmiotti will exec produced the film.[2] In September 2017, Christine Boylan is writing the script.[3]

• Painkiller Jane at IMDb