Casting Bits: Mick Jagger In ‘Tabloid’, Brittany Snow In ‘Pitch Perfect’, Emma Roberts And AnnaSophia Robb In ‘Anything But Ordinary’
By Angie Han/Sept. 28, 2011 12:30 pm EST
After the jump, Brittany Snow channels her inner Rachel Berry, while Emma Roberts and AnnaSophia Robb deal with a neurological disorder.
Though the premise sounds on the surface like a college version of Glee, it honestly sounds much more interesting. Tony-nominated Avenue Q director Jason Moore is helming the film from a script by 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon, based on a nonfiction book by GQ editor Mickey Rapkin. One blurb on the book’s site describes it as “like a Christopher Guest movie in book form,” and given Moore and Cannon’s past work I’m guessing the film version will keep to a similar sense of humor and style. Shooting is scheduled to begin mid-October in Baton Rouge. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Emma Roberts and AnnaSophia Robb have signed on for the generically titled Anything But Ordinary, with Sanaa Hamri (Just Wright) attached to direct. Charlie Craig’s “music-driven love story,” which is being developed simultaneously as a book and a film, follows a 17-year-old diving star who suffers an accident that puts her into a coma for five years. When she wakes up, she finds she’s acquired the condition of synesthesia, causing her to process words and numbers through colors, sound, and the third dimension. (Yes, it’s a real thing.)
Roberts’ most recent onscreen appearance was in Scream 4, and she’ll next work on the comedy Celeste and Jesse Forever. Robb recently starred in Soul Surfer, and is attached to one of the various Peter Pan projects in development — the “dark” one with Aaron Eckhart and Sean Bean. [The Hollywood Reporter]
