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Rashida Jones Makes a 'Frenemy of the State'

by Elisabeth Rappe Oct 14th 2009 // 3:32PM

Filed under: Action, Comedy, Deals, Universal, Scripts, Family Films, Comic/Superhero/Geek

I am appalled this awesome little news item slipped past my radar, and even more upset that I am just now hearing that Rashida Jones has a comic book called Frenemy of the State at Oni Press. As if that isn't neat enough, Variety reports that Frenemy has just been optioned by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment. I mean, a comic book that's not only penned by a woman, but stars a young woman is actually being optioned. It's the stuff geek girl dreams are made of.

But I'm jumping the gun a little here, because if you're as out of the loop as I was, you don't know what Frenemy of the State is about. It stars a young heiress who works undercover for the CIA, and was described at ComicCon as "What if Paris Hilton was a spy?" But Jones describes the heroine as being a little classier than that: "She has lived a life of privilege, attended the best schools and learned every language, but her obsession with spying on exes gets her into trouble and she is recruited to be a spy in exchange for not going to prison. There is a comic element to it, this girl who is so conscious of social standing and wearing the right shoes, suddenly becoming responsible for these dangerous, life-threatening missions." If that sounds a bit drippy, remember that Lara Croft started off as a careless young heiress too, until she discovered the thrill of artifacts and firearms.

Jones will co-write the screenplay with Will McCormack, and won't be playing the heiress. "It's intended for a girl much younger than me, about age 20, an interesting age for girls as they make that scary jump to adulthood." I can't think of anything a 20 year old needs more than an action heroine to idolize during that jump, so I can't wait to see this come together.

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Tags: Frenemy of the State, FrenemyOfTheState, Imagine Entertainment, ImagineEntertainment, Oni Press, OniPress, Rashida Jones, RashidaJones, universal, universal studios, UniversalStudios, Will McCormack, WillMccormack

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