‘Ricky And The Flash:’ Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody And Meryl Streep Team Up
By Germain Lussier/March 25, 2014 2:30 pm EST
The Wrap broke the news of the potential Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody, and Meryl Streep project, describing its plot as follows:
Variety’s report added in the details the character is a rock star and she returns home when her child has a divorce.
That juxtaposition of Hollywood fame and real-life problems is right in Cody’s wheelhouse, and Streep can obviously do nearly anything. Demme pretty much can too, but he hasn’t made a feature since 2008’s indie Rachel Getting Married. Ricky and the Flash sounds like it’s a bit in the same straightforward, character-based camp as that movie.
Demme won his Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs, Cody won hers for Juno and Streep has three Oscars (Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie’s Choice, The Iron Lady) out of 18 nominations. (That’s the most nominations taken by any actor in the Oscars’ 86-year history.) It’s at the point where almost anything she does is guaranteed an Oscar nomination, and that’s very attractive to a studio.
Cody is coming off her directorial debut, Paradise, which got a quiet theatrical release late last year. The tepid reception could be one reason she’s back at her strongest craft, screenwriting. Teaming with such talented people can’t hurt.
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