The Doctor Who actress will play a writer in indie movie Not Another Happy Ending
She’s best known from TV as Doctor Who companion Amy Pond, but Karen Gillan has just landed her first lead movie role.
Scottish rom-com Not Another Happy Ending will see Gillan play an eccentric and highly strung novelist who’s achieved success with a particularly miserable brand of storytelling and now finds herself suffering from writer’s block.
Her publisher, played by fellow Scot Emun Elliott, quickly realises that her inability to write stems from the fact that she is now simply too happy - and sets about trying to change that. In the process, of course, he realises he has fallen in love with her…
Director John McKay, who worked with Andie MacDowell in another romcom, 2001’s Crush, said of his new leads: “We have two of the newest, hottest, sexiest pair of lead actors out of Scotland. Just right for the kind of quirky, romantic indie movie Not Another Happy Ending is set to be.”
Production on the film is scheduled to begin towards the end of the year or the beginning of 2012.
The announcement follows another first for 23-year-old Gillan - she makes her West End debut in October, starring in a production of John Osborne’s Inadmissible Evidence.
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