Breslin Picked as a Bathtub Girl in ‘The Class Project’

Currently in that star child actress moving onto more adult roles phase of her career, Abigail Breslin is moving closer to the direction of acting peers such as the Fannings by taking on some tougher, less flattering indie drama roles. After signing up for Hilary Brougher’s Innocence, the actress will now topline The Class Project, playing one of two teen sisters turned murders. To be directed by Stan Brooks (we’ve got no clue who this director is), lensing begins this month. Producers include Michael Rotenberg, Damian Ganczewski and Juliette Hagopian.

Gist: Scripted by Fabrizio Filippo and Adam Till, this is based on Bob Mitchell’s “The Class Project How to Kill a Mother: The True Story of Canada’s Infamous Bathtub Girls,” which follows two sisters who, tired of their mother’s alcoholism and her abusive boyfriends, take matters into their own hands and plot to kill her.

Worth Noting: From the book’s description: “On January 18, 2003, police, alerted by a frantic 911 call from a distraught pair of teenage girls, arrived at the girls Toronto area townhouse to find their mother dead. It appeared the 44-year-old alcoholic, having slipped into a booze-and-pill stupor, drowned in her own bathwater.” It took almost one full year to convict the pair — which I imagine will be the central narrative points in the screen translation.

Do We Care?: With virtually unknown talents behind the camera, our interest level could increase depending on who picks up the role of the equally demonic sister and that of the alcoholic mother.