Every year at this time, the 'Black List' of the best unproduced screenplays doing the rounds in Hollywood is released. One of the movies on this year's list has just got a talent injection, as NewsInFilm says Drew Barrymore has attached herself to direct When The Street Lights Go On.
The script, written by Eddie O’Keefe and Chris Hutton has shades of Stand By Me and Super 8 about it, as it's a coming of age movie set in the 80s, about a teenage boy called Charlie who fancies himself a filmmaker. He stumbles across the bodies of a 17-year-old beauty and the English teacher she was having an affair with, and then tries to work out who committed the double murder.
It'd be a very different movie for Barrymore after her directing debut, Whip It. At the moment, it's just one film on her list of potentials, but with the script now getting Black List attention, expect to more about it in the coming months.