I think it was pretty obvious from watching
The Omen remake last summer that
Julia Stiles isn't quite ready to lead a big Hollywood movie. Her acting was weak, she couldn't muster any chemistry with
Liev Schrieber (but the bad script must be credited with some of that) and I couldn't get a feel for her character at all.
Variety are reporting that the 26 year old actress has signed on to produce and star in
The Bell Jar, a movie based on the late poet Sylvia Plath for Plum Pictures. The plot will be taken directly from the semi-autiobographical novel of the same name, which Stiles has apparently had a fancy for making for quite some time now.
"The Bell Jar" tells the story of Esther Greenwood, a young reporter who seeks to make a name for herself in New York but spirals into depression and moves back to Boston. She eventually undergoes electroshock therapy and makes several attempts to take her own life.
Stiles will be playing the role of the young reporter. The book is said to be a very emotional and a harrowing read as you can literally feel Plath fighting her own demons as she writes the novel. The book has already been
adapted into a movie in the late 70's of the same name but it's far from well known. Has Stiles got what it takes to lead an emotional movie, or should she stick to playing a secondary character in movies like
The Bourne Series?