Chloe Moretz to play Emily The Strange
Kid stars grow up so fast these days, which is why you have to squeeze everything you can out of an actor like Chloe Moretz before she gets all adolescent and ungainly—such as signing her up to play Emily The Strange, patron saint of Gadzooks goth girls everywhere since the early ’90s. Universal has acquired the rights from Dark Horse, who began publishing graphic novels featuring the character (originally created to sell T-shirts and other bits of emo effluvia) in 2005. Fortunately, the creators of Emily The Strange settled their long-running lawsuit with the authors of the 1978’s children’s book Nate The Great And The Lost List, which featured a remarkably similar character named Rosamond, last year, so there’s nothing standing in the way this time.