Madonna to star in new husband’s next movie-paper

LONDON, DEC 27: Madonna has been given a late wedding gift by her new husband, British film director Guy Ritchie -- she is to be the star ...

LONDON, DEC 27: Madonna has been given a late wedding gift by her new husband, British film director Guy Ritchie — she is to be the star of his next film.

The Queen of Pop, who tied the knot with Ritchie in Scotlandthree days before Christmas, will take the lead role in his latest gangster film called "The Mole", Britain’s mass-selling Daily Mirror newspaper reported on Wednesday.

"She plays an American girl who comes to England and iscaught up in an underworld battle where the hunt is on to find a police informer in one of the gangs," a production insider on the movie told the paper.

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Madonna,42 and Ritchie, 32, who directed the successfulfilms "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" about gun-toting London gangsters, wanted to work together to avoid the pressure of having separate job commitments, according to the Mirror.

The movie will be based in London, where the couple have ahome, and filming could start in March, the paper said.

The newlyweds are on honeymoon at a 52 acre (21 hectare)estate in southern England owned by British pop star Sting.