Renee Zellweger Wants To Join The Party In 'Pillage'

Renne Zellweger. Cocaine. Booze. Yeah, we never thought we would see those words altogether either, but Zellweger is ready to fucking party, joining the forthcoming film “Pillage.”

Based on the book by Brantly Martin, and described as “the love child of Charles Bukowski and Bret Easton Ellis,” the story follow “four best friends living in Manhattan who rebel against their dead-end lives by searching for the perfect party in the downtown nightlife scene.” But ‘Nick & Norah’ this isn’t. The story features a rogues gallery of characters not quite on the level of the personalities that populate New York City all in a critiques of contemporary excess. Here’s the full Amazon description of the novel:

The love child of Charles Bukowski and Bret Easton Ellis, Brantly Martin provides a brutal yet hilarious look at the lives of Manhattan’s downtown elite at the dawn of the new millennium in Pillage, his first novel. Detailing the decadent descent of Cracula and his crew, Martin lures us into the shadowy ambiguities of addiction–a world where desire meets destruction and the perversity of this pathos is often laughable. Be it urban wildebeest Aeronymous, the wigga with a taste for BAPE sweaters and iced coffees; the Fireman, the overgrown adolescent who knows the quickest way to your ex-girlfriend’s bed; or the Reverend, who rejected the sins of his brothers to save the Africans from themselves, the entitled creatures of this novel plunder what remains of a once-vibrant culture and reap the spoils of our languorous generation. Between eight balls of cocaine and pints of Patrón, Cracula fluctuates between reality and fantasy, hyper-aware of the façades, formulas, and falsehoods that encircle his existence, but unable to gain an advantage. Pillage reveals the inherent hypocrisy of America’s social and economic achievements, as they are made manifest in the city that never sleeps, slyly implying that triumph is a trap in itself–and the only way out? Just ask Kurt Cobain…

The film was written and will be directed by John Krokidas, with shooting to take place early next year. This is yet another intriguing role for Zellweger who continues to mix up her mainstream fare with some edgier material. She will next be seen in Olivier Dahan’s English language debut, the country musical/drama “My Own Love Song.”