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On Bedhead’s recommendation, I ended up reading Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places a while back. I had thoroughly enjoyed Gone Girl, so Bedhead thought I would like Flynn’s earlier books. While I thought Dark Places was creepy and actually pretty scary, if I was comparing Dark Places to Gone Girl, GG comes out as the stronger, more well-written story. Soon after Gone Girl became a huge publishing phenomenon and David Fincher signed on to direct the film, Hollywood decided to also try their hand at Dark Places.

Right out of the gate, there was a big miscast with Charlize Theron in the lead role. Charlize is simply nothing like the “heroine” of the story, Libby Day. She’s just not – Libby is supposed to be small and trashy. Even when Charlize plays dirtballs, there’s still something regal about her, you know? Like, some actresses just can’t play “trashy,” in my opinion. Anyway, the international trailer for Dark Places was just released yesterday and… I still don’t know what to think. Beware: there is some NSFW language, but otherwise this is fine.

Nicolas Hoult plays Libby’s friend, which makes some kind of casting sense. Christina Hendricks as Libby’s mom? Hm… I don’t hate it or love it. Chloe Moretz as Ben’s girlfriend… interesting. I don’t hate that.

I assume Charlize was cast because she’s one of the few actresses that can “carry” a movie, at least according to Hollywood executives. But this trailer isn’t really convincing me that she’s Libby. We’ll see!

Some photos of Charlize out with Jackson this week. She took him to his dance class (adorable).

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