Amanda Seyfried is going to be The Girl Who Conned The Ivy League!
New project for director McG and Seyfried, so we’re looking forward to this new story, that’s based on the Rolling Stone article of the same name adapted into a feature by screenwriter Lorene Scafaria.
If you had a chance to read the original story, than you know it’s little bit like Catch me if you can, since it is a story about a clever girl, named Esther Reed who managed to steal a series of identities, become Brooke Henson and get herself into Columbia University under false pretenses, not to mention a false identity.
No wonder she was described as “a criminal genius,” by Jon Campbell, the South Carolina police detective who eventually exposed her trail of deceit, who also added that “she was manipulative, controlling, brilliant. We didn’t know what to make of her.”
However, the truth was somewhere in the middle, and if you check out the story you’ll actually see that “a 28-year-old high school dropout from Montana, Esther Reed just wanted to stop being Esther Reed and to embark on a new, better life of her own design.
She was pursuing the American Dream, with a twist: Rather than forge a new identity from scratch, she would steal someone else’s and remake it to suit her own needs.
Reed never imagined that her ill-conceived self-help program would land her on America’s Most Wanted and brand her as a threat to national security.”
So, as you already guess, the real Henson was a missing person and detectives on that case eventually tracked down Reed, but she vanished before they could catch her.
That’s exactly the thing that’s probably going to make this movie excited, and we really hope that Amanda Seyfried is the best choice.
And since the name of Lorene Scafaria, writer of Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, and a member of the so-called Fempire, is involved, we’re more than sure this going to be a very interesting project.
We’re hoping to hear some new information about this one, such as the casting of Campbell, the investigator, or some other details that we’re all so curious about. And if you’re fan of this kind of puzzle-stories, you should definitely stay tuned!
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Oh, my goodness, how gullible are we? Esther even managed to con the producers. How many people have had a difficult childhood to deal with and never turned into a candidate for America’s Most Wanted? This will quite adequately feed her ego. “Oh, poor Esther”; just what she wants you to believe.