Saoirse Ronan And James Gandolfini In ‘Teenage Hitgirls’ Movie ‘Violet & Daisy’
If you read thatSaoirse Ronanis going to star in a film about a teenage killer, you might immediately flash back to news aboutHanna, the film directed by Joe Wright in which Ronan plays a 14-year old trained by her father to be a killing machine. That film is dated for 2011, and we haven’t seen a trailer ormuch more than a photo.
That, however, is not the film this article is about. But if you tookHannaand squished it together withThe Professional, you might end up with something that sounds a lot likeViolet & Daisy, the film written and directed byPreciousscreenwriterGeoffrey Fletcher.
Varietysays the film “centers on a pair of teenage assassins who are lured into what is supposed to be just another quick and easy job, only to find complications as the man they’re supposed to kill is not what they expected.“Alexis Bledelis rumored as Violet (possibly stepping in for Carey Mulligan, who was once linked), leaving Ronan to play Daisy;Danny Trejois reportedly set for a part, too.
The trade also quotes Fletcher saying “I wanted to make a film that was full of left turns.” I’m always leery when a screenwriter proclaims that one of their primary intentions is to mess with the audience by throwing twists and turns into the script. But this is a movie about teenage assassins, after all — genre-iffic and possibly not the most ambitious thing in the world. So if thrilling and surprising an audience is really the primary motivation, that could work. (The script has been pegged in the past as a sort ofThelma & Louise+Superbad+Pulp Fiction, so draw whatever you want from that.)
Fletcher’s only other produced screenplay isPrecious, but he hit the big time there, taking home an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. (An unjustified win, I think, given that he was up againstIn the Loop,Up in the AirandDistrict 9. But that’s the Academy voting process for you.)
Violet & Daisyis scheduled to begin shooting in New York on September 27.
