NEWS: Zooey Deschanel Lands 'Gospel' Role of a Lifetime

CELEB: Zooey Deschanel Lands 'Gospel' Role of a Lifetime

After much speculation and rumor surrounding which "it girl" would land the part of Janis Joplin in the upcoming biopic The Gospel According to Janis, director Penelope Spheeris has settled on 26-year-old, indie-sweetheart Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous, Winter Passing) to fill the lengendary singer's paisley bell-bottoms. Pink was originally tapped for the Southern Comfort-swigging role but dropped out, calling it "some circus pop contest."

Gospel follows Joplin's ups and downs from her arrival in California in 1963 until her heroin overdose in Hollywood in October 1970 at age 27.

The film is scheduled for release in 2008.

i hope they get to put on some pounds because shes a rail

I love Zooey, but isn't she a little too cute to play Janis? And can she sing?

well, her character sang in elf, but i dunno if it was really her voice.

She also sang in the beginning of Winter Passing, but I'm not sure how Janis-y it was. Either way, I love her, and I bet they pull this off.

She can outsing Pink

Watch Elf or Winter Passing those films both feature her voice.

I love Zooey, so I really hope she pulls this off.

it was her voice.

she can outsing pink anyday. i love zooey.

Hah. Yeah, she can.

I looooove Zooey. Good for her.

Zooey actually sings in a band called If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies.
I love her and want to father her children... after this Janis Biopic of course...

bxx

She pulled off some rather uncute things in Winter Passing.

I don't think we have to worry about anyone being to cute for a role. Remember Charlize Theron in Monster? And I've always thought she had a bit of a bluesy sound to her voice so I think she can pull off the vocals.

this pleases me..

Bette Midler did it best in The Rose. Technically not a biopic, but certainly based on Joplin.

How did they start out with all of those god awful choices and end up with a good one?

I love Zooey, but she's not big enough to be Janis' thigh!

Why do people think Janis Joplin was fat?

I was just wondering that myself.

I love me some Janis. It's required of Texas girls to scream Piece of my heart at the top of their lungs in their cars. I think Zooey will do nicely

I don't know that they're so much saying that Janis was fat (far as I can tell, she had a very normal figure), as much as saying that Zooey is just very thin.

She wasn't fat, but she certainly was a "thicker" gal then Zooey.

I only see sexy.

sexy=curvacious, which is truly more that Sexy...it's perfection.

Janis wasn't a size 4, which by modern Fashion Standards, that makes her "fat", in Main Stream Media.

now, i really hope they get someone good for Country Joe McDonald...and we get to see some Girl on Girl action, too. woohoo!