Glass Onion star Janelle Monáe has been cast as Tanya Smith in Universal Pictures' Never Saw Me Coming thriller movie.
Never Saw Me Coming is a feature film adaptation of Tanya Smith’s memoir novel Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System — and Pocked $40 Million, which was published in 2024.
A description of the book reads, “In Never Saw Me Coming, Tanya Smith shares her deeply personal and remarkable story of how she went from a precocious young girl to a money-grabbing, computer-savvy wiz. It starts out as a keen interest in technology and innocently acquiring phone numbers to Michael Jackson, as well as other celebrities, and moves to her successfully stealing and depositing $5,000 into her grandmother’s banking account. By the time she is 18, the risk taker has confiscated millions in cash. “The FBI is hot on her tail and hauls her in for an interview, demanding Smith let them know who she’s working for, ‘as these are not the kind of crimes Black people are smart enough to commit.’ Their words, indicating that intelligence was determined by race, severely offended Smith. Up for the challenge, she proves the FBI wrong and over time steals $40 million dollars, while securing diamonds, gold bars, and other commodities. Her lifestyle attracts the wrong kind of people, even those who set out to kill her. “Law enforcement persisted, ultimately dubbing Smith “one of the single biggest threats to the entire United States banking system.” She receives an outrageous prison sentence—the longest for a white-collar offense—and is eventually released by mounting her own brilliant defense.”In addition to her successful music career, Monáe has starred in movies such as 2016’s Moonlight, 2016’s Hidden Figures, 2018’s Welcome to Marwen, 2019’s Harriet, 2020’s Antebellum, and 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, among other titles.Brandon Schreur has been writing about comics, movies, television shows, and all things pop culture for roughly five years. He's a lifelong cinephile who spends way, way too much money buying Blu-rays and trade paperbacks. You can find him on twitter at @brandonschreur.Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat are set to lead Neon’s upcoming movie The Wrong Girl, which recently began filming in…Disney has released the Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip trailer for the upcoming family…With Daredevil now officially in the MCU, the rest of Netflix’s The Defenders could be following him in the future,…A new update on DC’s Clayface movie is out courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision newsletter, offering up new information on…DC’s planned Clayface movie has officially begun hearing pitches from directors, with Deadline reporting that Jeff Wadlow and James Watkins…Indianna Bell and Josiah Allen’s moody chamber piece gets physical. A You’ll Never Find Me Blu-ray release date has been…An armed robbery goes to hell in the newest action-thriller Ambulance. Michael Bay’s long career of quick-cut, stylized action movies…Universal Pictures has announced that Kat Coiro’s upcoming romantic-comedy film Marry Me starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson will now…
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