Sadly one of the most interesting film partnerships formed this year has dismantled with the popular rumor being that Ellen Page has gotten “Post-Oscar cold feet” from starring in a “Evil Dead-style” horror movie after receiving an Oscar nomination for the Indie drama Juno.
The film in question was Dragged To Hell, the “spook a blast” supernatural genre pic that is being produced over at Universal as Sam Raimi’s first non-Spidey directorial effort in eight years.
The official reason given to Bloody Disgusting was that “she didn’t like the latest draft of the script,” but I can’t help but feel the rumors are true.
She’s got scared. Poor lass. And Dragged To Hell is worse off for it because actresses’ of the quality of Page don’t usually take on these kind of movies.
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Thank god.
quality?
i don’t know where you’re already labeling her quality, she’s only done one movie that’s really garnered that much attention being “Juno.” I’ll wait to see what other movies she does before i call her a quality actress.
She is overated, i’ve seen her in Hard Candy, X3 and Juno and I haven’t been impressed at all. She’s not awful and does have the potential for being a good actress, but right now her hype is undeserved.
Ditto what Tino said. Page is WAY overrated. She was lauded for Hard Candy when she barely did anything. I couldn’t believe it when one reviewer called her performace in HC “A triumph.” Why are there people pissing their pants to dump praise on her?
She mumbled and emoted (on the few occasions when her face displayed anything other than “Duh.” But she didn’t act.
I get the same sick to my stomach feeling when I see her as when I see SheMale LeBoof.