I try not to mention my family too often, but I had to put this on here just to have a record of it for myself. Pretty damned cool if the writers don't strike before the screenplay is finished. Go Megan.Jessica Biel set to Die a Little
Hottie du jour Jessica Biel is preparing to star in the thriller Die a Little, based on Megan Abbott's acclaimed 2006 novel about a schoolteacher whose life is thrown out of whack when her detective brother falls for a mysterious woman. Although the book is set in the 1950s, the movie will take place in the present. Biel, who optioned the book and will serve as a producer on the film, will play the femme fatale, not the bookworm. (Hollywood Reporter)
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Very cool! (As we old guys say.)
Actually almost everyone, regardless of aga, that I told said that same thing. I think "cool" transcends age.
Especially when it's news like this.
Hey, you get to jump up and down and scream and shout about family accomplishments all you want, and this is wonderful news for Megan. I'm thrilled for her.
So nice of you, Sandra. I'm jumping inside.
Congratulations to her, and to you...if the film is good, it can't hurt, and if it's bad, at least it's some money and publicity, and some of us will at least have Biel to watch.
Do we know who the scriptwriters/adaptors are?
Thanks. Todd. We can only hope for the best. Marcia and Geoffrey Blake are writing the script. Whoever they are.
If they don't do it justice, we'll hunt them down like dogs. We're crazy like that.
Hi Stephen. Since you can count on one hand, the films that do justice to the novel, we'd better start getting our posse together now.
Patti--
You must be very proud.
All of her novels are very good, and we're very happy to see her getting some well-deserved recognition.
E.J. Olsen
Thanks, EO. I sent you an email re: Detroit Noir. Hope you got it.
I'd pay to watch Jessica Biel balance her checkbook, but in a movie based on a great book - bonus! Do you think Megan can go back and have Biel's character be a nudist throughout?
Wasn't she portrayed as a nudist in the book? Or am I remembering it wrong. I know millions of men are disappointed she isn't going to play Wonder Woman.
I meant that she should be naked in every scene... and then roll around in soap bubbles like Ann-Margret in TOMMY, but naked...and without the baked beans.
Okay, now I have to rent Tommy. My Ann Margaret experience is limited to
Bye, Bye Birdie.
Somehow this reminds me of how John Ball wasn't too thrilled with the film version of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (I disagree, but can see where he was coming from), and made sure the second novel, THE COOL COTTONTAIL, would be pretty impossible to film even as the Hollywood new permissiveness was expanding by setting it mostly in a nudist/naturist resort. (THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS! turned out pretty dire, but I rather liked THE ORGANIZATION. They really missed a trick in not actually going back to the novels for the televisions series...given what they did do, someone still could.)
Biel is getting trash-press buzz about being willing to do nude scenes now, so I think I can contain my disappointment even at the lost chance of a WONDER WOMAN starring Biel as Diana Prince and written and possibly directed by Joss Whedon. Though if that was to happen somehow, that wouldn't ruin my day, either. Long-term Whedon employee (and VERONICA MARS acting colleague) Charisma Carpenter (who's actually close enough to my age for me not to feel quite so abashed) involved somehow would've been nice, too...sorry, my mind seems to be wandering...did someone mention Sela Ward as Amazon Queen? Oh, yes, that was me...(roles for Angela Bassett and Christina Chang? I say, Why not!)...
Someone posited Charlize Theron as Lora King. She'd run right over Jessica Biel, but that's the point by the end of the novel. It's the two male leads I can't cast.
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