by Carrie Baker

BULGARIA, April 21, 2006 – Mia Kirshner stars in the new Brian DePalma (Carrie, Scarface) film The Black Dahlia. Dahlia is an adaptation of James Ellroy’s (L.A. Confidential) novel of the same name. The Black Dahlia, based on the true story of a pretty actress/fashion model who was brutally murdered in Los Angeles in 1947, stars Mia Kirshner as the victim Elizabeth Short. The movie uses Short’s still unsolved murder as a background for a larger story about corruption in Post World War II in Los Angeles.

Also starring in the movie is Hillary Swank, who won Oscars for Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby. Swank plays a sexy femme fatal with a mysterious connection to Short. Aaron Eckhart (Paycheck) and Josh Hartnett, who’s currently starring in Lucky Number Slevin, star as two ex-boxers turned cops obsessed with finding Elizabeth Short’s murderer. Scarlet Johanssen of Match Point and Lost in Translation fame is the woman that comes between two of them.

The very noir film that has been over three years in the making, gone through two different directors, and a few different leading men, is set for release in the Fall of 2006.