It seems as if it took a little longer than it should have for 14-year-old Hailee Steinfeld, the Oscar-nominated breakout star of the Coen brothers’ True Grit, to land her first feature post-True Grit, but it has finally happened and to no surprise it’s a film at Paramount.
Deadline reports Steinfeld will star as London Lane, a 16-year old whose memory is erased at 4:33 every night, in a feature adaptation of Cat Patrick’s to-be-published novel Forgotten.
Mike Fleming’s additional story details are a bit oddly worded as they say after waking the next morning, all London can remember are events from her future. This makes it sound like she travels forward in time only to return each night, or perhaps as if she’s living a life backwards. London then meets a new boy at school, but becomes frustrated when she can’t seem to find him in her memory of things to come.
Sounds a bit weird to me and it sort of depends on who they get to direct it before I’ll determine whether or not this is all that legit of a project. If they get some music video or commercial helmer to board it then it sounds like an early year bottom feeder, but should someone with a vision, such as maybe and Andrew Niccol or Duncan Jones set their sights on it then maybe it is something legit.
The book is set to hit shelves in June.
