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Mandate Pictures has set Footloose‘s Julianne Hough and Russell Brand to star in Juno scribe Diablo Cody’s directing debut. The film is untitled and Mason Novick will produce. Cody will be exec producer with Nathan Kahane. Production starts in the spring and Lionsgate is selling international rights at AFM.
Hough plays a sheltered young woman who loses her faith after a plane crash and revels in the decadence of Las Vegas. There, she meets an unlikely companion who helps her find herself. Mandate previously worked with Cody and Novick on Juno and Young Adult, which she scripted and Jason Reitman directed, and which Paramount will release in December.
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The FEMpire rules again!!
But hasn’t anyone realized that DC was a one-trick pony?? Did anyone see Jennifer’s Body? OR United States of Tara? No! And if you did, you could say that they were both horrible! The Box-office / TV thinks so too…
So who decided that letting her behind the camera was a good idea??
(I mean, if Nikki didn’t already say who put her behind a camera above, I would have assumed it must be DeLuca and the peeps remaking Point Break.)
I get where you’re going — I really do — but if you REALLY think it’s THAT difficult to get someone behind the camera, you’re unfamiliar with how the industry works.
Look at the cast, the producer and the financing they are going for.
The cast: Ain’t exactly George and Julia
The producer: Loves him some Diablo and will fight for her
The financing: Ain’t exactly a WB/Uni partnership
Obviously, someone as well-spoken as you should be heeded in all matters of taste.
why can’t you be happy for someone that they are enjoying some success? it’s not like she just stole the movie that you were about to direct. she kind of wrote it and is producing it too. what have you done lately aside from being an internet troll?
Julianne Hough is lovely, gorgeous, sexy and beautiful. She’s a very talented professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She’s amazing. That woman is incredible. Good for her to keep landing such high profile roles. She deserves it. It’ll be an exceptional performance, just wonderful.
Let me guess, agent or father?
She, along with the other two mentioned in the headline of this thread have to be three of the most annoying personalities around. Putting Brand and Hough as the leads of your movie? oh yeah, that’ll be a hit. LOL
Is this Derek Hough?
Okay, Julianne!
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce. Ohhhh boyyy… *sigh*
so she’s a director now? yay.
everyone else is doing it… why not.
a team of 3….great….really talented…relevant… people…
wow this sounds terrible already
Worst casting decision ever.
She’s phone it in now. She was paid a fortune for her rewrite of Burlesque and did NOTHING.
N O T H I N G
honest to blog!
-RnsW
You go, Diablo! Fuck the haters. You have more talent in your clitoris than any other female writer has in her entire body.
Diablo is unafraid to do the gross style fo comedy most chicks shy from. Other female writers would be lucky to have Diablo use them as a tampon for one day.
Wow, that’s just disgusting.
So, I’m the only one who has a problem with Ms. Ryan Seacrest getting a one way ticket to the top of the A-list? Unproven as an actress….were there no real actresses in Hollywood who wanted this role?
I know that in Hollywood who you know and who you are related to means more then how many dues you’ve paid…or how talented you are for that matter….but, this is BS.
Does anyone else who read the script think that Russell Brand is completely wrong for this?
Yes I did read the script and I would have never thought to cast Russell Brand. I think he’s great at what he does but when I read it I envisioned someone like Ryan Gossling or Joe Manganiello from True Blood. The script is good with some interesting characters. I’m curious to see how the rest of the cast rounds out.
I wonder if this movie will have any sarcasm in it.
Russell Brand directed by Diablo Cody. Yup, Hollywood’s finished.
I guess I’m stunned there’s not MORE hating on Cody in these comments. Hate her as much as you want, but JUNO was a great script that basically violated every rule of structure known and still produced a truly sweet and affecting movie.
JENNIFER’S BODY had, at its core, good ideas, but the horror section was far less interesting than the build-up and study of the contrast between the two leads.