Zooey Deschanel And Joseph Gordon Levitt In Talks To Star In Rom-Com 500 Days Of Summer
The last recent rom-com I watched (re: politely forced) wasMusic and Lyrics, which was so amazingly terrible it even made the domineering rental-picker blush. One of the problems nowadays with this genre is an utter void of chemistry between the leads in favor of “mall hot” eugenics.Fehto that! Without even knowing the plot or director, the words “Zooey DeschanelandJoseph Gordon-Levitt, epicly in love” is not really deserving of an eye-roll. Let them and their tears and their city-chic pets make out in the rain, sounds totally opposite-of-mall-hot to me.
EW’sHollywood Insiderreports that the two young and talented actors are in talks to star in the"anti-romantic comedy"500 Days of Summer, with Deschanel in chats to play a girl who doesn’t believe in love, while Gordon-Levitt would play the guy who does, indeed, believe and must show her. Ooh la la. Cue Elvin Bishop’s drunktastic “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” fromBoogie Nightson your WinAmp.DirectorMarc Webb, making a crossover from MTV music videos for Good Charlotte (blech), Ashley Simpson (blech) and Weezer (hi high school) to features, will helm the pic forSlashfilm faveFox Searchlight. The script is byScott NeustadterandMichael H. Weberwho,uhhh, wroteThe Pink Panther 2.
Deschanel is climbing the Tinseltown ranks in major upcoming flicks like M. Night’sThe Happeningand Jim Carrey’sYes Man, and just released a cutesy folk album with M. Ward calledShe & Him. She was also eye-lash-battingly great on the third season ofWeeds. Gordon-Levitt is currently cashing in on Stephen Sommers’sG.I. Joein the role of Cobra Commander and can next been seen, next week in fact, in the dismally reviewed Iraq War fableStop-Loss.
Discuss: Mushy mushy. What movie got love right? Will these two peoples have chemistry on-screen? What star-crossed lover movie(s) made you grab the Pepto?
