The minute Screen Gems landed Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester and Aly Michalka (of The CW's HELLCATS, which I have not watched) for their routine thriller THE ROOMMATE, they should've thrown millions of dollars at Barbet Schroeder or, better yet, Paul Verhoeven until they had no choice but to take the assignment. Then they should've given them final cut, and stood back while film history was made.
Instead, they hired some Danish dude named Christian E. Christiansen to direct a standard-issue, PG-13-rated retread of SINGLE WHITE FEMALE. The fucking ads for GOSSIP GIRL are more tawdry than this.
THE ROOMMATE is currently scheduled for a February 2011 release. What a missed opportunity.
