Kate Bosworth to star in “Lost Girls and Love Hotels” movie
According to Hollywood Reporter, Kate Bosworth will be starring in a movie based on a novel about a foreign girl who goes to Japan to teach English and ends up taking lots of drugs and having a lot of sex:
“Young Victoria” director Jean-Marc Vallee has found his next project: “Lost Girls and Love Hotels.”
Kate Bosworth is attached to star and is also producing with Relativity Media.
Nadia Conners wrote the screenplay, which adapts Catherine Hanrahan’s 2006 novel.
Here’s a Publishers’ Weekly description of the book featured on its Amazon page:
Margaret, a 20-something Canadian, has fled to Tokyo to escape her past and now instructs aspiring stewardesses in “cabin-crew and airline interview English.” By night, she numbs herself with drink and dangerous sex. Her story, as readers learn in alternating chapters, features an imploding family and a dangerously schizophrenic brother. Though Margaret is less than convincing as a narrator, her surreal Tokyo encounters propel the book: a barkeep who communicates with lines from Beatles songs, speakers in public bathrooms that broadcast flushing sounds, a rent-a-dog park, a Western slacker who gigs as a fake wedding minister. And, of course, the automated love hotels that Margaret frequents with a Japanese gangster. The plot lurches forward—Margaret becomes fixated on a missing Western girl, gets fired and hooks up with a man whose name she never learns before her roommate flees. There’s redemption to be gained, but the fractured narrative feels like a string of bizarre moments.
Yakuza gangsters, wacky toilets, gaijin wedding ministers, and renting pets? Sounds like it’s got all the exotic and strange stuff that a Western audience would like and expect to see in a story about Japan. Maybe they can also throw in some robots and sex dolls?
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