13-year-old Chloe Moretz, who made a huge splash as Hit Girl in Kick-Ass and looks to do the same in the upcoming English-language vampire drama, Let The Right One in, has scored a new role in the indie coming of age flick, Hick.
Adapted from Andrea Portes’ novel, Variety reports that Moretz will play a rural Nebraska girl, Luli, who gets more than she bargained for when she runs away when her hick family abandons her and heads to Los Angeles, meeting numerous unsavoury characters along the way. Both funny and very dramatic – in the book Luli’s life of the road involves her becoming an accessory to a robbery as well as getting raped and tied up in a motel – it’ll certainly be a challenging role, but young Chloe has shown she’s far shrewder than her age suggests, so she’ll hopefully be able to pull it off.
Derick Martini (Lymelife) will direct, with shooting due to begin later this year.