Former stand-up comedian turned writer Gren Wells, who scripted the upcoming weepy-looking drama “Earthbound,” which stars Kate Hudson as a woman dying of terminal cancer who meets her true love, is now poised to gain a stronger foothold in Hollywood. Her new script “Cover Girl” is going into production and will be directed by Donald Petrie (“Miss Congeniality,” “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” and the recently reviled “My Life In Ruins”).
According to Production Weekly, the current cast includes Blake Lively (who has the upcoming Ben Affleck-directed “The Town” and comic-book adaptation “The Green Lantern”), Jim Sturgess (“Across The Universe” and the upcoming Peter Weir film “The Way Back,”) and Hugh Dancy (who will next star in Stephen Frear’s dramedy “Coach”).
Details on script are scarce but we imagine it’ll fall right into Petrie’s collection of fairly noxious crowd-pleasers. The aforementioned films of his we mentioned are rather not our thing, but we suppose there’s some kind of an audience out there for them. However he did start off rather great with “Mystic Pizza,” remember that one? Too bad, that’s a far distant memory. Oh well, at least the cast of this one is pretty good. Here’s to hoping its not unwatchable which is pretty much all we can ask at this point.
