Emma Stone in Talks to Star in New Musical Film LA LA LAND

According to The Wrap, CABARET's Emma Stone is currently in talks to to star in a new "song-and-dance romance" titled LA LA LAND from Damien Chazelle. Eddie Redmayne and Ryan Gosling are also reportedly in discussions to take on the lead male role. Chazelle is expected to re-team with composer Justin Hurwitz ("Whiplash") on the movie.

The site reports that the project will center on a "pair of dreamers - aspiring actress Mia, who's lonely desperate to fit in, and cocky yet charismatic jazz pianist Sebastian - who fall in love in Los Angeles. However, the city that brought them together may tear them apart, as they soon discover that balancing love and art in such a cutthroat climate isn't easy."

The site also shared Chazelle's "lookbook" for "La La Land", a document which includes the story, characters, look and tone of the film:

"I'd like to make a contemporary musical about L.A., starting with the L.A. we know but slowly building to a vision of the city as romantic metropolis-one that is actually worthy of the dreams it inspires. I'd like to make a musical about the way L.A.'s peculiar rhythms can push its residents to the edge of their emotions-be they hope, desperation or love. Think the kind of teetering-toward-madness you see in "The Graduate" or "Boogie Nights", and imagine if you were to push that further. In this case, the city pushes its residents all the way: it pushes them into song."

Read more of the document here.

Stone made her feature film debut in Superbad(2007). She co-starred in The House Bunny (2008), Zombieland (2009), and Paper Man (2009). In 2010, Stone made her leading debut in Easy A, for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. Stone's other films include Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), The Help (2011) The Amazing Spider-Man film series (2012, 2014) as Gwen Stacy, and the animated film The Croods (2013).

In 2014, Stone co-starred in Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Her performance in Birdman earned her nominations for the SAG, Golden Globe, BAFTA andAcademy Award for Best Supporting Actress. On November 11, 2014, she made her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, which she performed until February 15, 2015.

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