While you can’t tell a great deal about The Bling Ring from this first official still, it’s safe to say it looks like a supremely different tone and pace for writer-director Sofia Coppola and star Emma Watson. The former is known for her dreamy creations like The Virgin Suicides and Somewhere, while Watson’s best known for playing the bookish Hermione Granger. So I’m kind of excited to see how they’ll go with a true story crime caper about a group of fame-obsessed thieves.
Courtesy of EW, the image features (left to right) Georgia Rock, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Katie Chang, and Claire Pfister. Watson aside, these are mostly unknown names, but Leslie Mann, Paris Hilton, Kirsten Dunst and Gavin Rossdale will be giving cameos in the film.
Reports say that Emma Watson has “prepared extensively” for the role, as the ring-leader of a group of rich teens in California who decide to start a heist gang; robbing celebrity houses, including Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and Megan Fox. To research for the role, Watson has said that she just “watched a ton of reality TV.” Intense. The Bling Ring has no release date yet, but is likely to see theatres in 2013.
Is The Bling Ring a film you might want to watch, or is it too hard to tell from this somewhat non-descript picture? Will it make anyone sad to see Watson playing non-Hermione?
