Emma Stone, who since Superbad has replaced Lindsay Lohan as the reigning hot redhead of Hollywood, will star in the high school comedy Easy A, which just got a huge supporting cast: Amanda Bynes, Lisa Kudrow, Stanley Tucci, Penn Badgley, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Clarkson, and Twilight’s Cam Gigandet.
Stone plays a high school student who gets ostracized thanks to a rumor that she’s, uh, promiscuous. She turns the tables by (somehow) using her status to start a war between the puritanical and the liberal sects of the school.
Of the adults, I’m guessing Lisa Kudrow and Stanley Tucci are on the liberal side and Patricia Clarkson and Malcolm McDowell are on the puritanical side, but it would be amusing if that was switched around.
Hopefully, the 26-year-old Gigandet and the 22-year-old Badgley won’t be cast as high school students opposite the almost-age-appropriate Stone (20 years old), but this is Hollywood, so they probably will.
As the title suggests, the movie also thematically ties in with The Scarlet Letter, that book that everybody hated in high school.
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