Former stand-up comedian turned writer Gren Wells, who scripted the upcoming weepy-looking drama “Earthbound,” which stars Kate Hudson as a woman dying of terminal cancer who meets her true love, is now poised to gain a stronger foothold in Hollywood. Her new script “Cover Girl” is going into production and will be directed by Donald Petrie (“Miss Congeniality,” “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and the recently reviled “My Life In Ruins”).
According to Production Weekly, the current cast includes Blake Lively (who has the upcoming Ben Affleck-directed “The Town” and comic-book adaptation “The Green Lantern”), Jim Sturgess (“Across The Universe” and the upcoming Peter Weir film “The Way Back,”) and Hugh Dancy (who will next star in Stephen Frear’s dramedy “Coach”).
Details on script are scarce but we imagine it’ll fall right into Petrie’s collection of fairly noxious crowd-pleasers. The aforementioned films of his we mentioned are rather not our thing, but we suppose there’s some kind of an audience out there for them. However he did start off rather great with “Mystic Pizza,” remember that one? Too bad, that’s a far distant memory. Oh well, at least the cast of this one is pretty good. Here’s to hoping its not unwatchable which is pretty much all we can ask at this point.
Earthbound is a comedic drama – and is actually very funny
I know Production Weekly is reliable source.But how reliable? I'm a huge fan of Jim Sturgess and I read his girlfreind has just denied it on twitter(saying like "absolutely not true").And in a couple months,Sturgess's two project have just announced.
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/01/michael-winterbottom-heads-to-promised.html
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/03/anne-hathaway-and-jim-sturgess-set-to.html
I think this "Cover Girl" info is false.At least Sturgess isn't attached to this project,I guess.
Sorry for my English.
send a link to the twitter.
nevermind, found it.
I'm sorry,I should have posted Mickey's twitter link first of all.But thank you for updating! I appreciate it.
I know the opinion of an anonymous script reader doesn't mean much, but this was the rare mainstream romantic-comedy script I actually enjoyed. (I'm only posting this comment to fill you in on the scarce details of the script.) I'm no fan of Donald Petrie's previous work, but I'm sure he won't ruin a good script (he just doesn't enhance the shitty, shitty scripts of his other movies).
The story's set in London. Lively will play an American business student attending Cambridge on a scholarship set up through the bank she worked at in the U.S. When the bank fails (as a result of massive, comical corruption), her scholarship is revoked, so she has to scramble to find a way to make money and stay in school.
Through typically convoluted/far-fetched rom-com circumstances, she stumbles into a great scheme to make money: as a beard for wealthy gay men too terrified to come out of the closet to their old-money families. Things go awry when one of her clients is the brother of someone she's been flirting with all semester (can't remember if he's a fellow student or a TA–I read this a year ago).
The script hits all the familiar beats but approaches the tropes with moderate freshness–nothing revolutionary, but a lot of "Oh, that's an interesting spin on an old favorite" moments.
It also has one quality that most romantic comedy scripts lack: it's actually funny. More than that, it dares to handle romance in a fairly adult way. Most rom-coms these days seem to pay 40-year-olds to act like moronic teenagers instead of human beings (that's right, I said it: teenagers aren't human beings). There are still tons of things that could go wrong and ruin it in production, but at the script stage, it was surprisingly solid and very entertaining.
I'm just curious,so main characters in this film are the American girl and her client? Or girl and her client and his brother? Could you please tell me that?
Thank you.
It's a three hander – girl / gay client / his brother.
>It's a three hander – girl / gay client / his brother.
Thank you for the reply!
(If you read this..Sorry,I don't want to bother you,but one more question please? What do you think about this casting? It works? Although it seems Sturgess isn't attached to this project,but now I think story sounds very intereting and this casting is really good.And I just wonder why Sturgess's name is pop up to this project.
Thank you)
"If you read this..Sorry,I don't want to bother you,but one more question please? What do you think about this casting? It works? Although it seems Sturgess isn't attached to this project,but now I think story sounds very intereting and this casting is really good.And I just wonder why Sturgess's name is pop up to this project."
I have no idea about the casting on this movie – I'm not involved (I just read it). But lots of actors are attached to projects, but then don't do it for various reasons.
And it would be a good part for him – because he'd get to be funny and charming instead of always being so serious.
>And it would be a good part for him – because he'd get to be funny and charming instead of always being so serious.
Thanks for the reply!
Actually Jim Sturgess did several comedy works,when he was TV actor in UK.Ans he is very charming and lovely person himself.I'm sure he would be great,if he plays this role(client's brother,I guess).