One of them is Analeigh Tipton, star of last years Crazy, Stupid, Love, who will play Nora Greene, the best friend of the main character, played by Teresa Palmer. While interviewing Analeigh for her new movie, Whit Stillmans Damsels in Distress, Shocks non-horror site ComingSoon.net asked her about playing the role. They learned that theyve made quite a few departures from the character in the book for the movie, and that the book’s author may write her backstory for a possible webseries.
It was really exciting when I realized how Im going to play a character in a bookthats thrillingand then I met the writer Isaac and I later learned that the character in the book is half-black and shes in her 30s and shes missing a finger, so my character is a little different, she told them. Im not missing a finger, but all the character traits are there. Shes kind of this laid-back, protective, outspoken character thats not afraid to tell people how it is. So that is a different character than Ive ever really played. My character in Warm Bodies is sure of everything and she gets to hold a machine gun.
Even though the movie rights were picked up by Summit Entertainment in a slew of post-Twilight book acquisitions and it involves a similar supernatural romance as that successful franchise, we understand its a very different type of movie. ComingSoon.net also asked the actress whether Isaac Marion had been showing any intention of writing more with the characters from Warm Bodies, especially if the first movie takes off when released next February, and learned they might do some auxiliary material for the movie in a related webseries.
Warm Bodies, for him was a unique book – it was his first novel out – and hes got some pretty cool books that I think some producers are looking at, she said, “but I know Rob Corddry was interested in taking his zombie character and Isaac wants to take my character and do her backstory, so I think theyre going to go into a few backstories and maybe even make a webseries, which would be really cool. I hear thats in the works, so that would be awesome.
You can watch the rest of the video interview with the delightful Ms. Tipton talking about Whit Stilllmans Damsels in Distress over on ComingSoon.net shortly.
Warm Bodies is scheduled for release on February 1, 2013.
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