Eliza Dushku

She probably won’t half the power to go back a day and prevent his victim’s deaths, but never the less former “Tru Calling” starlet Eliza Dushku will be taking on “The Alphabet Killer” in her next film foray.

According to Indie Wire, the film re-teams the one-time “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” vixen with her “Wrong Turn” director Rob Schmidt.

Based on a true story, the flick tells of the unsolved 1970s Alphabet Murders in Rochester, NY - which claimed the lives on three girls, all having the same first letter in their names as the town their bodies were discovered. Dushku, in a change of pace, will play a badge-carrying law enforcer who’s assigned to the case.

"She has to witness all this pain and try to prevent it and the weight is too great for her and she cracks," Schmidt says while taking a break from scouting locations in Rochester. "It’s a very grim story about misery, but it’s also about a woman trying to fix herself and I think the audience will be sympathetic to her."

Not everyone in Rochester is happy they’re making a movie based on their most notable time in history. "There are some people in the community that would prefer that it not get brought up again," he says. "Families of the victims are still living in the area and I think for them it’s an unending heartbreak. But hopefully attention from this will bring new interest or leads in solving the case."

Dushku has a busy year ahead of her. She’s got four films to spruik (“On Broadway”, “Sex and Breakfast”, “Nobel Son” and “Open Graves”) and is attached to star in another, “Zoe”. She was set to star in the film “The Final Season”, opposite Sean Astin, but was replaced by Rachael Leigh Cook. (Bummer, it’s a stellar story that one).