Diablo Cody to Make Directorial Debut with Russell Brand, Julianne Hough

Just announced by Mandate Pictures, Julianne Hough and Russell Brand will star in Diablo Cody’s first directorial effort about a young woman who loses her faith after a plane crash and decides to go to Las Vegas to experience the wild side of life. On her journey, she meets an unlikely companion (Brand) who inadvertently helps her find her true self.”

I know Cody gets a lot of flack and people like to hate on her but I think she’s funny — and I think he’s funny.  So I hope it’s a good one.  I think the reason Cody gets hate is because of her own cultivated persona — the tattooed stripper schtick, which I never really bought entirely.  But hey, dudes get to cultivate their own images so why not women?  But when you remove all of that greasy coating, underneath it all is, I think, a funny, insightful writer.  She might have needed the schtick to break through.