Rising young star Emma Roberts (The Art of Getting By) takes the lead in upcoming comedy, Adult World, which sees director Scott Coffey (Ellie Parker) making his sophomore feature behind the camera.
Starring alongside Roberts will be a promising cast, headed up by John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Evan Peters (Kick-Ass), and now The Playlist have debuted a handful of great first-look images.
“A satirical coming-of-age comedy, centered on the life of Amy Anderson (Roberts) who has just graduated with a degree in poetry. Convinced she is the next star in the literary world, she moves back with her parents to write poetry and find her place in the world. Very soon — saddled with a stack of rejection letters, unpaid student loans, and no money — she decides to find a job in the real world. The only place that will hire her is an adult bookstore called Adult World. It’s there that Amy meets Manny (Peters) the store manager, and his transvestite friend Rubia (Armando Riesco). Meanwhile Amy goes to a poetry reading by her hero, Rat Billings (John Cusack), “one of the greatest punk poets of the early 90s” and after stalking him, he agrees to mentor her and help get her work published.”
Starring alongside the leading trio will be Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), Cloris Leachman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), and John Cullum (Northern Exposure).
Coffey is directing from a script by Andy Cochran, making his feature debut as a writer, with the score coming from Dan Boeckner, of Wolf Parade/Divine Fits.
No word yet on when we can expect Adult World to land, but with Sundance on the horizon, here’s to hoping that we’ll be seeing it make its debut in two months’ time. For now, here are the great first images, which you can click through to enlarge.
