Halle Berry is set to terrify desperate parents who are thinking of turning to surrogacy to start a family - by playing a mum-to-be who discovers her child's birth mother is insane in a new thriller.
Berry is in talks to star in director Paul Verhoeven's new film The Surrogate, which revolves around a couple who hire a surrogate to carry their child and find out mid-term that she's mad, according to Daily Variety.
The project will mark Berry's first film since 2007's Perfect Stranger, in which she starred opposite Bruce Willis.
The actress has taken time off to be a mum to 14 month old Nahla. The Oscar winner last appeared on the big screen in Things We Lost in the Fire at the end of 2007.
But after taking time out to be a mum Berry is slowly getting back to work later this year Frankie and Alice will be released which sees her star alongside Stellan Skarsgard.
The movie follows a young woman with multiple personality disorder struggles to retain her true self and not give in to her racist alter-personality.
it has recently been announced that she will also star in Nappily Ever After, which will be released in 2010.
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