Kimberley Peirce took nine long years to follow her out of the gate sensation and award winner “Boys Don’t Cry” with the Iraq war drama “Stop-Loss” which deserved more attention than middling reception it got. Well, we won’t have to wait nearly another decade for a film from the director but we just wish it was something we could get more excited about.
Deadline reports that Kimberly Peirce is set to direct “Wicked Lovely” based on the book by Melissa Marr. The very post-“Twilight”-esque tale tells the story of “a teenaged girl who has seen dangerous faeries all her life. Taught by her grandmother to ignore them so they won’t attack, the teen realizes she must drop that and confront a world she has been raised to fear.” Teenage girls? Faeries? Yeah, we are not the demographic for this.
The project is being produced by Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show and Universal which makes us wonder what is going on with the project she was developing (and maybe, hopefully still is?) with Judd Apatow. But if there is a kernel of hope it’s that frequent Tim Burton collaborator Caroline Thompson (“Edward Scissorhands,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Corpse Bride”) is penning the screenplay.