I can hardly believe it! Miss Heard has booked herself another amazing sounding project! Amber and Odette Yustman have signed on to star in And Soon the Darkness, a remake of the 1970 British thriller being co-produced and co-financed by Studio Canal.

Heard also is making her first foray into producer territory, acting as a co-producer on the film, which marks the feature directorial debut of commercials helmer Marcos Efron. How cool is that!

Set in Argentina, Darkness tells the story of two American girls on a bike-riding trip in a remote part of the country. When one of them goes missing, the other must find her before darkness falls and her worst fears are realized.

The original was set in France and tackled the idea of how vulnerable a stranger in a strange land can be.

The new Darkness will shoot in Argentina.

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He helped create the signature look of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, made Gwyneth Paltrow fat for Shallow Hal, and is currently turning Kanye West into a wrinkled old man for his upcoming “Stay Up! (Viagra)” music video. But at night, make-up and effects legend Tony Gardner is re-inventing the zombie.

“Basically, it’s the end of the world; the entire nation is zombies,” Gardner told us of Zombieland, which features Woody Harrelson and young rising stars Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard and Mila Kunis, and is due in theaters in time for Halloween. “And [the humans] are trying to get from the east coast to the west coast.”