Alexis Bledel has joined The Good Guy, a movie about a rising Wall Street star who starts to mentor a new salesman. This salesman befriends his girlfriend and that’s when things start to go wrong. The girlfriend named Beth will be played by Alexis in this case.

This is a smaller project, a lot smaller than her current movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 but that’s not always a bad thing. Not every actor can be employed for big projects all the time so they might as well do smaller ones.

In general this sounds like a rather standard romantic comedy though, of course we won’t know how good it is until it’s actually made and released. I would say Alexis is still trying to move away from Gilmore Girls but if you played a character on TV for seven years that can take some time.

Alexis Bledel has signed on to star in the Fox Atomic comedy Ticket to Ride. Alexis will play the character of Ryden Malby, she’s a college graduate that is forced to move back in with her eccentric family while she tries to find a job, a guy and her direction in life. The budget of the movie is set around fifteen million dollars.

The movie will be directed by Vicky Jenson who is best known for directing Shrek, she has a wide experience with animated movies. The script was written by Kelly Fremon who apparently wrote fifteen drafts of the script before coming to a final result.

I think this might be a good project for Alexis; it’s not the highest budget movie she’s been in but it’s still decent. As for the story there isn’t quite enough known about it yet but it looks like a halfway enjoyable story. She’s still trying to find her way after being on Gilmore Girls for seven years and that just takes time.

It’s commonly known that it’s hard to break out of the TV world and enter the big screen world. In a lot of cases it’s because they’re identified with their TV roles, in some other cases it’s because of a limited amount of talent. I could start with listing a huge list of examples but I’m not going to do that. I would like to focus on just two, one a bit older and the other one very current.

Michelle Trachtenberg is best known for her part of Dawn Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. After the show she continued to mainly star in movies; larger productions, independent productions and also some TV movies. Basically just doing a decent selection of roles; gaining experience. She just never really had movies where she really stood out. It’s not that she did extremely bad or just can’t act; none of the roles were that challenging really.

But for any actress that wants to be successful you just need a blockbuster once in a while. So the most logical step after doing independent productions is doing bigger movies. However Michelle seems to be taking a different road now, she was supposed to star in a new TV show. But this project The Hill has been shelved for now. The next project that will be released is an animated movie that has been in the making for decades, Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Apparently there’s a big fanbase for this movie, but seeing it took this long to produce my bet would be that it flops with the general public.

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