A black-haired, tattooed ex-stripper who calls herself Diablo is a horror fan. Who'da thunk it?
The former Brook Busey and current Diablo Cody, who's getting insane amounts of praise for her screenplay for Juno, is planning a horror flick entitled Jennifer's Body as one of her next projects, with Juno director Jason Retiman producing and Transformers mannequin Megan Fox in the lead role. She told MTV a bit more about it.
“It’s a horror movie, and it’s also about teenagers,” explained Cody, the white-hot writer currently accumulating awards nominations faster than Angelina Jolie takes in international babies. “It’s a lot darker [than ‘Juno’], and it also has comedic elements. Horror is my favorite genre - and like Juno, I like horror movies.”
The flick is called “Jennifer’s Body,” and will most likely mark the first appearance of sexy Megan Fox since her “Transformers” breakthrough this past summer. Described as a “Heathers”-type dark comedy, it tells the story of a seemingly-perfect cheerleader whose life is thrown into disarray when she gets possessed by a demon, begins eating boys in her small Minnesota town, then faces off against her best friend and the Satan-worshipping band that made her evil. Geez, doesn’t it suck when that happens?
“I think the interesting thing about adolescence is it’s a time when your emotions are totally heightened,” Cody said of the subtext she’s attempting to capture. “There’s so much potential for comedy, tragedy, melodrama, horror, whatever.”
