Diablo Cody to Write and Produce a Sweet Valley High Movie
Well it looks like Diablo Cody may have just found that one career-defining movie that she was put on this Earth to write. In the wake of a relatively weak opening for Jennifer’s Body, Variety reports that Cody has just signed on to write and produce a movie based on Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley High teen book series for Universal Pictures.
For the uninitiated, the Sweet Valley High books have been around since the ’80s, and follow the adventures of two identical twins, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, as they date boys, compete on the cheerleading squad, and do other stereotypical teenage girl type stuff. The series was adapted for the small screen back in the mid-’90s on Fox and UPN. It isn’t very clear whether or not the movie will actually be aimed at younger viewers, or if it will be turned into a Clueless-style ironic teen comedy, but knowing Diablo Cody, I would bet on the latter. Why else would she be interested?
I doubt many of Cody’s male detractors will have anything to say about this particular project, so she should be able to put it out there with relatively little blogger backlash. Still, is this a good career move for the Oscar-winning screenwriter, or should she be aspiring to accomplish something more?
Comments (13)
Woo-Hoo! One more movie I WON’T see!
Posted by The Other Guy on September 23rd, 2009Yea, I agree with the other guy.
Posted by DeadFox on September 23rd, 2009FUCK Cody!
Posted by Machete on September 23rd, 2009Good, she deserves this. I look forward to more work from a ballsy WOMAN. we get enough crap movies from the male dominated film world as it is.
Posted by rus in chicago on September 23rd, 2009*Dodges Rus’ Jizzwad*
I can’t think of anything more vomitous…
Posted by fatbologna on September 23rd, 2009That guy on the cover of the book looks like Freddie Mercury.
Posted by Captain N on September 23rd, 2009there is such irrational hatred for Cody, I don’t quite understand it. I liked Juno, I haven’t seen Jennifer’s Body, but I’ll give it and/or this movie a chance.
Posted by Mike on September 23rd, 2009I was more of a Baby-Sitters Club girl growing up, but I read a few Sweet Valley books too. Cute stuff. The show in the 90s was laughably terrible. I hope this is better than that was.
Posted by Ashley on September 23rd, 2009FUCK Deiablo.
Posted by Machete on September 23rd, 2009Homer, that’s the stupidest story I’ve ever heard, and I’ve read the entire Sweet Valley High series. – Moe
Posted by Ovenball on September 24th, 2009Boy there is a lot of hate for Diablo Cody. I didn’t like Juno and thought the writing was never truly representative of the characters, rather it was more representative of Diablo Cody. It was her voice rather the voices of the characters. Definitely not academy award caliber writing. So I am not a fan of her work…but all this hating is kind of funny.
Posted by 1138 on September 24th, 2009“but all this hating is kind of SAD”
Posted by rus in chicago on September 24th, 2009“the writing was never truly representative of the characters, rather it was more representative of Diablo Cody. It was her voice rather the voices of the characters. ”
I remember hearing this complaint about Tarantino
Posted by Mike on September 25th, 2009Leave a Reply