Elizabeth Banks To Star In Alan Ball’s ‘What’s The Matter With Margie’: Cannes
Elizabeth Banks has been cast in the title role of writer-producer Alan Ball’s new dark comedy What’s The Matter With Margie? Myriad Pictures announced today. Banks plays a downtrodden office worker who after years of abuse
finally snaps and resorts to murdering her tormenters. Daniel Minahan (True Blood, Series 7: The Contenders) will direct from Ball’s original screenplay, and Anthony Bregman (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Savages) and Ball will produce. Myriad has acquired all rights outside the U.S. and Canada and is pre-selling in Cannes. The film is scheduled to start shooting in early 2013 in Los Angeles. UTA Independent Film Group packaged the film and is arranging financing. SVP Business Affairs David Ducar negotiated for Myriad. UTA IFG repped the filmmaker and producers and will sell U.S. and Canadian rights.
Sounds like a remake of “The Girl Most Likely To” with Stockard Channing…doesn’t sound too original to me.
I am excited at the prospect of another Alan Ball feature film and this role sounds like it could be the kind of juicy part for Elizabeth Banks that Ball wrote for Anette Bening in “American Beauty.”
What’s the matter with Virginia (Now, just “Virginia”)? What’s the matter with Margie? What’s the matter with coming up with an original title?
Do you want another remake, sir?
Um, ever heard of “Office Killer”?