Is it only a matter of time before Diablo Cody directs her own film? From the sounds of this L.A. Times interview, Cody was on the set of her new film “Jennifer’s Body,” starring Megan Fox, a shit-ton which sometimes can isn’t allowed as pesky writers can get in the way if they’re following the letter of the law to a T.
But apparently director Karyn Kusama (“The L Word”) had no problem with Cody being around so much on the horror teen comedy.
But Cody does seem to be confused about her own work. She called “Juno” a high-brow art film (in what universe??). God, we hope she’s joking. “I did not think [‘Body’ would be my follow-up to ‘Juno.’ But I don’t know if I will ever write [another] highbrow, artsy movie.” [Stunned silence]. We seriously hope she’s kidding.
Cody also notes that the much-darker tone of ‘Body’ might not appeal to the ‘Juno,’ fans, but we’ve read it and we think it’s actually a much stronger piece of work, with more traditional arcs and screenplay structure and is pretty wickedly wry. “The people who really loved ‘Juno’ — I don’t know if they will love this in the same way. And the people who hated ‘Juno’ — well, this will just be more grist for the mill.”
It’s true, there’s tons of the pop-culture moments that people hate from “Juno,” but while we rolled our eyes at lot during that first 15-20 moments of the pregnant-teen comedy, in “Jennifer’s Body,” all of the Diablo-speak is admittedly pretty funny and clever and much less obnoxious. But then again, it’s all in the delivery. “Juno” could have sounded great on paper too.
One should note. We’re not sure if it’s an error on the L.A. Times part, but they call the emo-goth band in the movie Low Shoulder and in the script they’re called Soft Shoulder. And interestingly, this line that Adam Brody speaks (he plays the leader of the band), “”Do you know how hard it is to make it as an indie band these days? There are so many of us and we’re all so damned cute. If you don’t get on ‘Letterman’ or some retarded soundtrack. . . . Satan is our only hope,” is not in the script (things change, yes we’re aware).
Cody’s got a surprisingly insightful look at the horror genre. “Horror is a surprisingly feminist genre. The last person standing is usually a woman. And most of the guys in this movie are vain and insecure. You’ll notice there are no fathers in this movie. I didn’t want there to be any male role models — I didn’t feel these were girls who were loved by their fathers.”
“Jennifer’s Body” hits theaters sometime in 2009. If there’s a lesbian scene in the movie, it wasn’t in the original script. Some lesser dude blogs have also lamented that Megan Fox doesn’t go topless in the movie (which she kinda does in the screenplay) Maybe the summer? Meanwhile, yes, Cody made headlines last week for lashing out at her many haters about six months after the fact which seemed odd.