Chris Colfer, who you may recognise as the boy eunuch tenor-alto-whatever from the little musical television show that could, Glee, has written, produced and starred in the upcoming indie film ‘Struck By Lightning‘ – the trailer for which lies below.
Like Glee, Lightning looks pretty – well, like Glee (with a side of Election), minus the spontaneous outbreaks into song, and hopefully with half the dose of preachy feel-good morality. Two-time Golden Globe winner Colfer wrote himself as an overachieving aspiring writer who blackmails the various cliques at his high school into contributing to his literary journal in the hopes of bolstering his college application. If you ignore the absolutely terrible typeface and sub-par sound effects (and editing in general) on the trailer, it almost looks kind of promising with a pretty great supporting cast, including Our Rebel (Wilson), Alison Janney, Christina Hendricks, Dermot Mulroney and Sarah Hyland, who appears to be borrowing pretty heavily from her Modern Family character.
The film was directed by Brian Dannelly (of similar high-school Christ clique comedy Saved!) and is yet to receive a distributor or a release date, yet it still manages to look like the most promising thing graduate from Glee since Britney made a cameo.
Via Vulture
