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Real Girls’ Zooey Deschanel cast in Gordon Green’s Your Highness

It will be a pub crawl reunion for Zooey Dechanel – she has just signed up to play alongside her All the Real Girls’ co-star Danny McBride and her director David Gordon Green.

Eric Lavallée

Published on July 10, 2009

It will be a pub crawl reunion for Zooey Dechanel – she has just signed up to play alongside her All the Real Girls‘ co-star Danny McBride and her director David Gordon Green. In this chain mail and horses comedy, she plays Belladonna, Franco’s virginal bride. It was in the The Good Girl and Green’s second feature film (which was actually supposed to be his first before George Washington) where I took notice of Zooey, and more recently some critics melted for her remarkably piercing set of blue eyes in 500 Days of Summer. She’ll probably head out to the U.K once she has completed press for the Sundance hit.

Scripted by McBride and Ben Best, McBride will play an arrogant, lazy prince who must complete a quest to save his father’s kingdom. Franco plays his brother. Portman plays the warrior princess.

Is anyone actually looking forward to seeing this? Does anyone else think this will also happen to be a toker comedy?

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).