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09Jul2009

First Pictures from Drew Barrymore's 'Whip It!'

DateThursday, July 9, 2009 at 1:01PM
There was a rumor going around that Drew Barrymore was in the running to direct Eclipse, not only a breath-saving gum but also the third movie in the Twilight series. It's not happening, but Drew didn't deny her interest. You see, she's a filmmaker now. Her theatrical debut is Whip It!, a roller derby movie with Ellen Page.

Barrymore the producer hired Shauna Cross to write the script based on her novel about one girl's discovery of a roller derby league in Austin, which she joins to escape her humdrum small town life. USA Today published a new set of photos from the film, which co-stars Drew, Kristen Wiig, Zoe Bell, and Juliette Lewis, who really is that weird.

  

  

    

 

Can Barrymore turn this into anything? I have no doubts about it, actually. She may act like the free spirit an all that, but Drew's a pretty astute busineswoman, and she knows her limitations and strengths onscreen and off. She has chosen a movie about the actresses and some roller derby action. she's not making Avatar, so in not setting the bar too high, she is giving herself a much better chance of success.

Now, it remains to be seen if the script is garbage, but if it's at least OK, she's got a nice cast and she's not making a movie you could currently mistake for anything else. It's going to stand out because of the subject, which has hordes of fans in a lot of urban areas.

Whip It! will be in theaters on October 9th.

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