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Rashida Jones Sells Frenemy Of The State Comics
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... State Comics Apparently unbearably attractive girls are way into geeky stuff nowadays. How long have geeks been waiting for this? Decades, I imagine. Rosario Dawson writes comics and stars in Kevin Smith movies. Kristen Stewart dresses up as slave Leia in Fanboys . Even so-hot-it-hurts Rashida Jones is in on the geek craze, having written a graphic novel entitled Frenemy of the State. Now Jones comic looks like it will be hitting a silver screen near you very soon. According to Variety , Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have acquired the rights to adapt the ...
Universal Grabs Rashida Jones' Comic Book Frenemy of the State
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As countless graphic novels and comic books are being translated to film, one can't help but notice that there isn't much of a female presence in the pages or on the screen of these adaptations. Most of the stories are written and feature predominantly masculine themes and characters. This may be attributed to the fact that ...
Rashida Jones brings her graphic novels to the big screen
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Rashida Jones, who stars on NBC’s Parks and Recreation , is bringing her graphic novel miniseries Frenemy of the State to the big screen, according to Variety . Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have bought rights to the project, which centers on a young heiress who works undercover for the CIA.“It’s intended for a girl much younger than me, about age 20, an interesting age for girls as they make that scary jump to adulthood,” Jones told Variety. “There is a comic element to it, this girl who is so conscious of social standing and wearing the right shoes, suddenly becoming responsible for these dangerous, life-threatening missions.” ...
Rashida Jones Is A 'Frenemy of the State'
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"Scott Pilgrim" producer Eric Gitter and Imagine's Brian Grazer have acquired the rights to "Frenemy of the State," an Oni Press comic book created by "Parks & Recreation" star, and light of our lives, Rashida Jones. The series focuses on a wealthy heiress in her early 20s who starts to work for the CIA - Jones tells Variety "She has lived a life of privilege, attended the best schools and learned every language, but her obsession with spying on exes gets her in trouble and she is recruited to be a spy in exchange for not going to ...
Rashida Jones Now a 'Frenemy' to Universal
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... ; they also wrote a screenplay called Celeste and Jesse Forever, which is in development at Overture as another potential vehicle for Jones. However, don't look for her to show up in Frenemy. "It's intended for a girl much younger than me, about age 20, an interesting age for girls as they make that scary jump to adulthood," Jones told Variety. ...
'Frenemy of the State,' from Rashida Jones, picked up by Universal
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... the big screen after being charmed by her performance on "The Office" and the budding "Parks & Recreation." Turns out, she's a writer, too, and she's just sold her second project to Universal and Imagine Entertainment. ...
Rashida Jones Makes a 'Frenemy of the State'
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I am appalled this awesome little news item slipped past my radar, and even more upset that I am just now hearing that Rashida Jones has a comic book called Frenemy of the State at Oni Press. As if that isn't neat enough, Variety reports that Frenemy has just been optioned by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. I mean, a comic book that's not only penned by a woman, but stars a young woman is actually being optioned. It's the stuff geek girl dreams are made of.
But I'm jumping the gun a little here, because if you're as out of the loop as I was, you ...
