Alexis Bledel is set to join Saoirse Ronan and James Gandolfini in Geoffrey Fletcher's directorial debut, the teenage assassin flick, "Violet and Daisy."A recent co-star in Robert Redford's upcoming period court-room drama "The Conspirator," the ever-youthful 29 year old essentially replaces Carey Mulligan, who was originally attached to star alongside Ronan but has Nicolas Winding Refn's "Drive" shooting at the same time as well as Sam Mendes' adaptation of Ian McEwan's "On Chesil Beach" which was delayed earlier this summer.
After taking home the Best Adapted Screenplay at last year's Oscars for "Precious," Fletcher will be directing from his own script, originally pegged as a cross between "Thelma And Louise," "Superbad" and "Pulp Fiction." Story centers on a pair of teenage assassins (Ronan, Bledel) who are lured into what is supposed to be just another quick and easy job, only to find complications as the man they're supposed to kill (presumably Gandolfini) is not what they expected. Certainly sounds like a potentially entertaining pic but; how will it fare with similarly themed stories preceding it such as the Hit-Girl heavy "Kick-Ass" and Joe Wright's similary themed Ronan-starrer "Hanna"?
Production begins next week in New York with Fletcher, Bonnie Timmermann, John Penotti of Magic Violet/GreeneStreet Films and Steve Kempf producing.
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