LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 5, 2005–You can’t keep a good superhero down, as Jennifer Garner proved today, announcing that despite a painful injury that has sidelined her for over a week, she will attend this Sunday’s (1/9) gala Las Vegas premiere of ELEKTRA.

In ELEKTRA, the first action event film of the year, Garner stars in the title role as a strong, mysterious and sexy action heroine. But her on-screen abilities pale next to the real-life challenges she has overcome to commit to the event. Garner initially was thought to be suffering from a viral infection, but doctors today concluded that the Golden Globe(R) Award-winning actress has nerve damage resulting from a stunt she performed recently.

For the past two weeks, Garner has had to cancel extensive publicity activities on behalf of both ELEKTRA and the “Alias” season premiere, including a hosting gig on “Saturday Night Live” and the film’s press junket.

But Garner insisted that the “show must go on” for the Las Vegas event, which will see the Palms Casino and Hotel “Elektra-fied” with a 30-foot, pyrotechnically-enhanced billboard (in Elektra’s signature red) and even special ELEKTRA red gambling chips and blackjack table felt in the Casino.

Garner will be joined on the Palms’ red carpet by ELEKTRA fellow cast members Goran Visnjic, Will Yun Lee, Natassia Malthe, Kirsten Prout, Bob Sapp, Chris Ackerman and Colin Cunningham, plus Director Rob Bowman and Producer (and Marvel chief) Avi Arad. Other attendees include Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jennie Garth, James King, “Desperate Housewives’” Jesse Metcalfe, Peter Facinelli, Jeremy Piven, Judy Greer and many others.