The phrase “I’m starting to feel all funny in my pants” is one you’ll often hear around me whenever Elizabeth Banks comes on the screen. This woman has enough sex appeal that could power the state of Nevada (if you could harness that energy into electricity that is). But more importantly, she’s pretty talented.
Banks is featured in 2 of my absolute favorite movies over the past year or 2 (Slither and The 40 Year Old Virgin), and I won’t deny that I’ve been keeping an eye on anything she gets involved with pretty closely (watch for her next in Spider-Man 3). Now news of a new romantic comedy comes at us. The good folks at comingsoon give us the following:
Elizabeth Banks will star in and produce Universal romantic comedy What About Barb, about a socialite who must allow her uncouth cousin to be maid of honor so her nouveau riche uncle will pay for the wedding. Accepted screenwrter Mark Perez is writing the movie, based on the story of the same name by Jill Bernheimer and Keetgi Kogan. Mary Parent and Scott Stuber are producing for their Universal-based Stuber/Parent. Max Handelman, Bernheimer and Kogan will also executive produce.
Sounds pretty good to me as a basic premise. We’ll see what it turns into. As a side note to this story, Banks has a pretty interesting project coming out soon called “Bill” with Aaron Eckhart.
