The list of good movies about country music is a thin one — last year’s “Crazy Heart” was a pretty good stab, and the Loretta Lynn biopic “Coal Miner’s Daughter” probably deserves to be up there, but few others leap out. A new comedy centering around country music is set to start shooting next month, however, and it’s just cast the lead role.
Lizzy Caplan (“Cloverfield,” “Hot Tub Time Machine”) will play the lead role in “Queens of Country,” about a young woman obsessed with the titular singers, the likes of Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. When she discovers an iPod full of songs by those artists, she becomes intent on tracking down its owner, convinced that it’ll belong to her true love. Caplan started off as Lindsay Lohan’s best friend in “Mean Girls,” but with roles in J.J. Abrams’ monster movie “Cloverfield,” as well as in the TV shows “Party Down” and “True Blood” and in Danny Boyle’s upcoming “127 Hours,” she’s definitely on the up.
The directors are Ryan Page and Christopher Pomerenke, who were behind the documentaries “The Heart Is A Drum Machine” and “Blood Into Wine,” the latter of which followed Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s attempt to set up a vineyard in a ghost town in Arizona. Keenan’s actually set to play a villain in the film, according to an interview that Page did with Movieweb, and the cast allegedly also includes Fairuza Balk, Ron Livingston and Joe Lo Truglio (“Superbad”), although the latter two are only listed on IMDB, but you know, a stopped clock is right twice a day…