Aimee Teegarden Tagged Articles at Cinematical

Just what would you expect from a white, cutie student from The Jane Austen Book Club (or the dysfunctional son from Transamerica) and Spike Lee? Believe it or not, Lee is executive producing a new indie film called The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll, and Variety reports that Kevin Zegers (the cutie student) and Jason Ritter (The Education of Charlie Banks) will star.

Written by Scott Rosenbaum, who is also directing, the film focuses on "a rock star (Zegers) who retreats to his Long Island hometown after his sophomore album flops." Oh, the woes of stardom. So, in this story, we'll also see the likes of Peter Fonda, Taryn Manning, Lauren Holly, Aimee Teegarden, and James Ransone -- plus, appearances by music names like Billy Morrison, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, and Sugar Blue.

There's not enough information to really get a handle on the story, but I'm in just to see who Peter Fonda will play. Production on the film has already begun in New Jersey, New York, and Los Angeles, so we should know more soon.

The adaptation of Brad Kessler's Birds in Fall isn't the only coastal tragedy film on the way. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Molly Sims (Las Vegas) and Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights) have signed on for the indie drama Hickory Nation, which takes the grief down to a coastal town in Maine.

Written and directed by Rebecca Cook, the film centers on the community of a small Maine town in "the aftermath of a mysterious hit-and-run accident. The event brings together a teacher and her two students, each struggling with secrets and lies." Sims will play a teacher who has lost her daughter (presumably in this accident), and Teegarden plays one of Sims' students, a local beauty queen. Production is set to begin "next summer," but I'm assuming THR means this summer, because that's a long way off for an indie with its stars already cast.

Okay. What in the hell is with the huge obsession lately with accidents and people coming together after them? We're sick of war movies, but we don't mind 50 million stories where people die and others grieve? This theme is almost as prevalent as prostitutes on film these days.