Ellen Page, star of Juno (which recently passed Sideways as Fox Searchlight’s highest grossing movie ever, and has also already outearned Little Miss Sunshine) may star in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut.
Whip It is Drew Barrymore’s forthcoming directorial debut, due to start production in March. It’s a coming-of-age tale about a girl who finds her identity through the power of roller derby, based on Shauna Cross’ novel, Derby Girl.
Cross tells FilmSchoolRejects “rumor is the lead could be played by an actress whose name rhymes with Shmellen shmage”, though personally I hope she’s not that schmucking schmumb. She’d have to be a shmodshmamned shmetard to be in this shmiece of shmit.
Jesus, Drew Barrymore has to be near the top of my “How is s/he still working list?” Aside from being a horrible actress who rotted one of Tom Green’s nuts off with her succubus venom, she has an annoying speech impediment that makes it sound like she’s constantly leaking air. You’re rich as hell – hire a goddamned speech coach. Don’t they have rehab for former child actors who can’t talk? I know some asshole casting director thought your inability to communicate was cute once upon a time, but you’re an adult now, and much like skinny dipping in the city pool, some stuff doesn’t fly anymore.
Guh, speech impediments creep me out more than midgets and harelips combined. Honestly, people who are less than perfect should just be rounded up and sent to camps. I wonder why no one’s thought of it before.