Sara Foster and Jordana Brewster will
topline "D.E.B.S.," Screen Gems' feature version of
Angela Robinson's comedy short that debuted at the 2003 Sundance
Film Festival.
Robinson directs her own script, with filming beginning this
week.
Pic is about a quartet of plaid-skirted high school girls
whose SAT scores display an exceptional aptitude for lying,
cheating and killing, so they are drafted to be secret agents.
Foster portrays the leader of the D.E.B.S., while Brewster is
her bad-girl counterpart. Devon Aoki ("2 Fast 2
Furious"), Meagan Good ("Biker Boyz") and Jill
Ritchie are the other D.E.B.S. members.
Ritchie, who's the sister of Kid Rock, reprises the role she
played in the short. Michael Clarke Duncan plays the D.E.B.S.
Academy president, while Holland Taylor ("The
Practice") is the headmistress.
The transition between short and feature film arenas was
speedy. Robinson readied a feature script so that when Screen
Gems prexy Clint Culpepper sparked to the POWER UP film
grant receipents11-minute pic at Park City, he was able to
greenlight a low- cost feature that could begin production just
four months later.
Foster just completed her feature starring debut alongside
Owen Wilson in the George Armitage-directed "The Big
Bounce."
This is the first acting gig for Brewster since "The
Fast and The Furious." She's been preoccupied with school:
last Friday, she wrapped the final exams that will allow her to
graduate with Yale University's class of 2003.
(Dana Harris contributed to this report.)
