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Twilight star Kristen Stewart is going to play famous rock’n'roller Joan Jett in “The Runaways,” the rock n’ roll biopic of the 1970s all-girl band. The screenplay was written by Video director Floria Sigismondi, who will also be directing. While John Jett, Art Linson and River Road Entertainment's Bill Pohlad are producing. Jett will also act as an executive producer.

The Runaways were hugely influential as the first successful all-girl hard rock band; its members included guitarists Jett and Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West, singer-keyboardist Cherie Currie and bassist Jackie Fox. The band was brought together in late 1975 by impresario Kim Fowley, who thought a novelty act of teenaged girls performing in leather and lace would be an easy sell, but the girls ended up proving to be serious and influential musicians with songs like "Cherry Bomb." The band lasted about four years together, falling apart over management and money issues.

Fresh from the success of "Twilight," Kristen Stewart is set to portray Joan Jett. Stewart gushed in a interview that the movie will follow the '70s all-girl band, The Runaways, from the time it was formed to the break-up. "It's about the forming and death of this band, and it launched Joan Jett's career and she became the icon for females in rock and roll," she shared. "It's an absolutely insane concept for me to even think that I'm going to play her, but apparently I got the job so I'm going to give it all I've got."

River Road Entertainment hopes to go into production in 2009 but will have to work around Stewart’s prior commitments to the two Twilight sequels.