Eva Mendes joins "Cleaner"

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Source: Hollywood Reporter

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Eva Mendes has signed on to the upcoming Millennium Films thriller, Cleaner.  She will join Christa Campbell, Sameul L. Jackson, Ed Harris and Keke Palmer in the cast of the film.

The script, penned by Matthew Aldrich, follows a former cop (Jackson) who makes his living cleaning up crime scenes. After cleaning a murder site, he discovers that the crime was never reported to the police and that he has unwittingly covered up a homicide.

Mendes will play the role of widow to the slain man and will turn to Jackson for help.

Shooting is now underway.


KJ's Take: Mendes was gorgeous in Hitch, and is always fun to look at for a few hours.  The script sounds interesting enough (though don't ask me how Jackson ends up at the scene) and it does boasts a decent cast, maybe this is one of Jackson's rare hits rather than another of his growing pile of misses.