Lindsay Lohan as Sailor Moon?
Posted by Clint Morris on April 18, 2006
I’m wearing my sceptic hat as I type, but never the less, this is such a yummy rumour, I’d be robbing you of one of the best aspects of the web - the so-inane-it could-be-true news item - if I were to dismiss it.
According to Moviehotties.com, “Buffy” brainchild Joss Whedon could be in talks with FOX to write and direct a live-action version of the Japanese anime hit “Sailor Moon”. Allegedely the studio recently snagged the rights to the series - about an ordinary 14 year old junior high school girl who receives a special quest from a talking cat named Luna to fight evil and find someone called the Moon Princess - from the TV troupe that created the show .
Yep, OK, a “Sailor Moon” movie, we can believe that – if only because the series is ripe for the big screen treatment, ain’t it? It’s also not too hard to believe that FOX are keen to work with Whedon again – who did most of his TV stuff there in the early days, and who was a frontrunner to direct their “X-Men 3” at one stage - and after the WB’s “Wonder Woman”, which he’s writing and directing, Whedon’s also going to be hotter than burning coals.
To the next part of the item though : Lindsay Lohan as the star. Um, Lohan as Sailor Moon? Um, Whedon actually being interested in a film that would star Lindsay Lohan? Don’t see it. No offence to Lohan, she’s great at what she does, but Whedon seems to have a woody for a different type of actor – not just those with lesser-known faces, but ones of the less fluffy variety. If, on the other hand, there was talk of a Charisma Carpenter or Jewel Staite being attached to the project – not that they're exaclty right for the lead role, being anything but 14 - It’d be much easier to swallow. Lohan and Whedon though? Socks and Thongs would seemingly go better together.
In addition, the site says Jennifer Garner would be playing the film’s main villain. No qualms there. Mrs Affleck rocks. She might actually do such a film justice. Can imagine her working well with Whedon too.
Anyway, that’s the rumour. Whedon directing Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Garner in “Sailor Moon”. Could be on the money…..but could also be the result of some story-hungry British tabloider. Shall see.