Remember when Lizzy Caplan was the goth-y lesbian shlub of “Mean Girls” or just alien food in “Cloverfield”?
Now, after turns in “Party Down,” and “Hot Tub Time Machine,” she’s starting to come into her own and certainly in the looks department, she might end up the new firecracker producers turn to when they want attractiveness and whipsmart wisecracks (what 20/30-s0mething guy didn’t fall in love her brains and sex appeal character in ‘Hot Tub,’ the best comedy of the year so far).
Anyhow, now she has the lead in the previously reported, “Queens Of Country” a quirky, southwestern-flavored comedy that’s currently shooting in Arizona. So here’s your first look at a few shots from the film. The picture stars Caplan, Ron Livingston (“Office Space,” “Band of Brothers,” “Sex and the City”), Joe Lo Truglio (“Superbad,” Greg Mottola’s “Paul”), Matt Walsh (“Old School”), Wanda Jackson and Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan (pictured below as the snively-looking dude).
Here’s the synopsis we’ve been given, the film was co-directed by Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, the filmmakers behind the music-docs, “Moog,” “Blood Into Wine,” and “The Heart Is A Drum Machine.”
Queens of Country is led by Caplan’s character, Jolene Gillis, who lives in a fantasy world of old time country stars and western style. Gillis, the prettiest girl in a small Arizona town, finds an iPod filled with songs that speak to her sensitive heart. Convinced the iPod’s owner is her soul mate, she dives into a heartwarming and hilarious adventure of mistaken identities, ATVs, line dancing competitions, kidnappers, time machines and doppelgangers all leading up to one of the most surprising twists since “The Crying Game.”
Caplan’s star seems to be on the rise, she’s also c0-starring in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” which stars James Franco as the American mountain climber Aron Ralston who had to hack off his arm with a knife after it was trapped under a boulder. That one just wrapped, but it’s unclear if it’ll be a 2010 release or not. No word on who’s doing the score to “Queens of Country” yet.
