Emma Stone’s “Easy A” might have come second to Ben Affleck’s “The Town” last weekend in the box-office sweepstakes, but every single player in Hollywood noticed just not only how well the teen comedy did (relatively well, next to an male-dominated action thriller), but just how Stone charmed the pants off everyone in the audience, studio heads included.
So it’s no surprise, her name is on the tip of everyone’s lips this week. She’s already been touted as a potential love interest in Marc Webb’s “Spider-Man” starring Andrew Garfield, but Variety is also reporting that her “Superbad” co-star Jonah Hill wants her for the female lead in his upcoming adaptation of the late ’80s teen-cop TV show, “21 Jump Street.”
Written by Michael Bacall (“Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World,” the Les Grossman film) and to be directed by Phil Lord (“Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs”) “21 Jump Street” is set to begin production in early 2011, after Hill finishes shooting David Gordon Green’s “The Sitter.”
“Easy A” did well for Sony — $21 million so far off a very modest $8 million dollar budget, and expected to grow– and Stone is now a big hit with studio head Amy Pascal (who also has control over “Spider-Man”). No other details are given, but such is the fickle world of Hollywood. If Stone is wise, she’ll strike while the iron is hot.