Unless, of course, you count taking up a role Lindsay Lohan dropped out of 'foolish.'
I'd wondered what the big-eyed and slightly trashy Brittany Murphy had been up to lately, and THR says she's got two projects on the horizon.
There's an indie flick called Across the Hall she's about to start filming, which is described thusly:
In "Hall," Murphy is starring opposite Mike Vogel ("Cloverfield") and Danny Pino ("The Burning Plain") in a thriller about a brutal standoff between a young man (Vogel), his fiancee and his best friend (Pino).
Doesn't sound particularly interesting yet, but there's time. The second project isn't official yet, but since Lindsay Lohan dropped out of Poor Things, Murphy's eyeballing the role.
"Poor" revolves around two female con artists who befriend and then murder homeless men in order to collect on their insurance policies.
Lohan and Murphy, I think, would bring entirely different sensibilities to a film like that. Lohan's presence would automatically make it a comment on the insensitivity of the youth of today, whereas Murphy could believably play the kind of desperate low-life that would do something like this, if her 8 Mile performance is any indication. I'm not sure what it means when I think Brittany Murphy can play a better bit of gutter trash than a boozy rehab case on the nose candy (allegedly).
Is that too harsh?
