Ballet seems to have become quite popular in Hollywood at the moment, with Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan gearing up for release, and a couple of other ballet themes flicks in the works. Once of those is Dance Of The Piriton, which THR reveals has just snagged Kristen Bell for one of the lead roles.
The 'script centres on an ambitious, slightly overweight ballerina with an overbearing mother (Bell) who will stop at nothing to become a star. The girl enters a "Mean Girls"-type environment when she has to prove her worth in class.'
The search is now on for the young girl, with the producers launching a US-wide hunt for the right person.
Interestingly, the script started life as a story Evan Greenberg wrote in middle school, which he then turned into a 50-page screenplay while at university. Once expanded into a full-length script, it landed on the 2005 Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, but went into limbo when Warner Independent was shut down a couple of year ago. Then Greenberg got the rights back, and has now set it up independently. And there's a reason he's never given up on it, with Greenberg saying, "I've never felt about anything like I do about this. It's etched in my psyche."