Variety reports that actors Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson have signed on for indie drama Rape: A Love Story. Domestic Disturbance director Harold Becker will helm with Michael Mendelsohn producing and financing through his Patriot Pictures banner. Rape: A Love Story is based on a 2003 Joyce Carol Oates novella that centers on a mother (Bello) who is recovering from a brutal gang rape and is stalked by the perpetrators when a sympathetic cop (Jackson) comes to her rescue. Breslin will play the woman’s 12-year-old daughter who witnesses the attack. John Mankiewicz, a writer and co-executive producer for hit TV drama “House M.D.”, adapted the screenplay. Bello,…