While UK audiences won’t get to see her impressive musical stylings in **Pitch Perfect **for another couple of months, Anna Kendrick is planning to put them to the test again for a new music-based romantic comedy drama. Kendrick has locked in the lead of The Last Five Years.
Richard LaGravenese, who is putting the finishing touches on Beautiful Creatures**, is on board to adapt and direct the film based on Jason Robert Brown’s acclaimed stage version.
But instead of being a simple relationship story, it has a little fun with the idea, showing aspiring actress Cathy (Kendrick)’s story in reverse chronological order from the end of a marriage and her husband’s story running forwards from shortly after they meet. The two timelines don’t interact directly – on stage at least – except for a marriage song in the middle. So it could effectively have both a happy and sad ending…
Distribution rights to the movie are being sold at the American Film Market starting next week. Kendrick will next show up in** Pitch Perfect (out December 21), Get A Job** and Rapturepalooza.