MOVIES - Oct. 8, 1990

Zanuck to Direct “Rush”: Lili Fini Zanuck will make her directing debut with “Rush,” Kim Wozencraft’s best-selling first novel about a female narcotics officer who becomes an addict. Jennifer Jason Leigh (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Miami Blues”) has been cast in the role. Zanuck co-produced “Cocoon” I and II and the Oscar-winning “Driving Miss Daisy” with her husband Richard Zanuck, who will produce “Rush.” Production is due to start in January with a script by novelist Pete Dexter. Wozencraft, herself a former narcotics officer, was jailed for drug violations and wrote the novel after her release.