From the people who brought you Juno, the trailer will surely read. And that’s the truth. Screenwriter Diablo Cody and writer/director Jason Reitman have teamed up to shoot Young Adult, a film about a ghost writer who comes to realize that her identity is lost in her pseudonym, then decides to try and get it back. [Deadline Hollywood] The ghost writer will be played by Charlize Theron, who hasn’t done much over the last couple of years, save stuff like The Road and Hancock.
Theron’s character goes back home to see her high school boyfriend, who’s married with kids.
The project’s being shopped around the studios, and apparently Mandate Pictures will get producer Steve Rales (The Darjeeling Limited) to come on to finance, courtesy of Reitman’s connections.
This reads like something between Stranger Than Fiction and ABC’s October Road. I can dig something like that, as long as Cody’s writing grows with her characters’ ages.
What do you think of this project? Theron? Reitman? Cody?