Check out this first look of Blake Lively and Chloe Moretz in their upcoming film, Hick!
The drama centers around Luli (Moretz), “a 13-year-old Nebraskan girl and her hard-going life on the road after she runs away from her neglectful parents and home. She’s taken in by Glenda (Lively), a hard-living grifter who takes her under her wing,” according to The Playlist.
Hick, based on Andrea Portes’ novel of the same name, will be featured at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
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During an exclusive chat at last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, teen actress Chloe Moretz, a.k.a. Kick-Ass’s Hit Girl, gave us the skinny on her future projects.
Following the release of the upcoming remake Let Me In, Moretz will next be seen in Hugo Cabret. “It’s a Martin Scorsese project,” she said. “It’s his first 3D film and it’s with Asa Butterfield playing Hugo Cabret, me playing Isabel, and Sir Ben Kingsley playing my father, [and] Sir Christopher Lee. There’s a lot of different people in it and it’s a really amazing film.”
Moretz called the Oscar-winning filmmaker “fabulous. I’m still working on it. I’m actually going to be there until late November so we’re still doing it.”
As for Kick-Ass 2, all Moretz could say was, “We don’t know yet right now. Matthew Vaughn is actually doing X-Men right now.”
She may not be kicking criminal ass again anytime soon, but Moretz still has a pretty full dance card coming up. “I do have a couple films that I am about to work on. I’m doing Old St. Louis, which we’re working out dates on, with David O. Russell directing and Vince Vaughn, he’s in it,” she said over a cup of coffee. “And this is Vince Vaughn’s kind of labor of love. He’s been working on it about eight years now and he’s really been working at it.”
Deadline reported today Old St. Louis is about a traveling salesman who reconnects with his estranged daughter, and that “actresses including Kick-Ass star Chloe Moretz have been mentioned as possibles to play the daughter.” Given her aforementioned comments, it appears that Moretz has indeed already won the role.
“I also have a film with Karen Kusama, who did Jennifer’s Body, and she’s doing this film called The Rut, which is this really amazing, amazing role. And I also have a film with Derick Martini called Hick, which is based off the novel Hick.”
The Los Angeles Times says The Rut “concerns a father-daughter relationship and centers particularly on hunting, as a daughter must learn the tricks of hunting and archery taught to her by her father after said father goes missing.”
Taylor Lane Productions says Hick “follows 13 year old Lulli McMullen, a Nebraska teen who gets more than she bargained for when she sets out for the bright lights of Las Vegas. Part coming-of-age story and part raggedy picaresque, Hick leads us at a blinding pace down broken roads through a world thats seems to this extraordinary and indomitable young girl, dangerously uncharted.” The book’s author, Andrea Portes, also penned the screenplay adaptation.
Let Me In opens October 1.
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Chloe has landed the role of Luli in the upcoming film adaptation of Andrea Portes’s novel, Hick. The film will be directed by Derick Martini, and the script has been penned by Andrea Portes.
The synopsis, according to Amazon:
Warning – Second paragraph includes spoilers!
Portes’s chilling debut tracks a 13-year-old Nebraska girl’s hard-going life on the road. Young Luli knows losers—her “aging Brigitte Bardot” mother, Tammy, and her father, Nick, go at each other every night at the Alibi, the watering hole in hometown Palmyra, Neb. Tammy runs away one morning, and Nick soon follows, leaving Luli alone at home with the Smith and Wesson .45 her Uncle Nipper gave her. Pistol in tow, she hitches rides heading west to Vegas.
A crooked man (literally; he “looks like an italic,” says smart-alecky Luli) named Eddie picks her up briefly before throwing her out of the car. Next comes cocaine-snorting grifter Glenda, who enlists Luli as an accessory to a robbery that goes awry. Glenda takes Luli under her wing. The two cross paths again with Eddie, who rapes Luli and ties her up in a secluded motel. Glenda comes to her rescue, but the confrontation with Eddie ends badly.
