You can be forgiven if you feel that you’ve lost track of the Clueless pairing Alicia Silverstone and Amy Heckerling. They were once at the top of the film world, the year was 1995 and then both filmographies would eventually include television work (here’s a retro Charlie Rose clip of Heckerling). The filmmaker tried a comeback, not to long ago — but got screwed over by the distribution company in charge of 2007’s I Could Never Be Your Woman.
Screen Daily reports that Silverstone and Heckerling will work in a sub-genre that shall become stale once the Twilight series is over and done with. Silverstone will join the well cast Krysten Ritter in Vamps – a modern-day tale of two female vampires who live it up in New York until love enters the picture, when each has to make a choice that will jeopardise their immortality.
Production is set to begin in April is backed by Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films alongside Lucky Monkey Pictures’ Lauren Versel and Maria Teresa Arida, and Molly Hassell producing. Despite the easy sell of girls with fangs in comtempo, romantic New York, I have a feeling that it’ll take some pushing and shoving for a studio to pick this up.
