It was only a couple of years ago that Brittany Murphy was popping up all over the place and it appeared she would be one of the next “it” girls in Hollywood. She landed a couple of very sought after roles, and then was handed a couple of project to headline, and it appeared she was being positioned to be the next julia Roberts (As one magazine cover suggested).
There was only one problem… she wasn’t very good. She wasn’t bad either. As a matter of fact, she had some shinning moments and showed flashes of a higher level of talent somewhere inside her, but the fact of the matter was she wasn’t ready to really command the screen, and for the most part her films weren’t that good either. Those two things caught up with her, and over the past 2 years she slowly started to sink into relative obscurity (it’s amazing how fast things can change in this town).
The stage could be set however for the return of Brittany Murphy. She has a couple of smaller indie films in the pipe (one of which I’m quite interested in seeing called “The Ramen Girl” which looks like it has potential), she’s been cast again in Sin City 2 which will be a high profile project and she’s just signed on for a new film “Across The Hall”:
In “Hall,” Murphy stars opposite Mike Vogel (“Cloverfield”) and Danny Pino (“The Burning Plain”) in a thriller about a brutal standoff between a young man (Vogel), his fiancee and his best friend (Pino).
On top of that, she may be in line to replace Lindsay Lohan in a really interesting looking project called “Poor”. The folks at Yahoo News give us this:
Murphy would join a cast that includes Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Rosario Dawson and Channing Tatum. “Poor” revolves around two female con artists who befriend and then murder homeless men in order to collect on their insurance policies.
That’s a terrific sounding cast, and the premise seems to have a lot of potential. Combine these two projects with something as high profile as Sin City, and we could be seeing a Murphy come back. So the movies are there… the only question left is… has she developed as an actress enough these past couple of years to take advantage of the situation? We’ll have to wait and see.
I don’t really hate her, but something about her just annoys the hell out of me. I can’t stand it when she’s in a movie and try to avoid films with her in it (she almost ruined Sin City for me). I also completely didn’t understand it why people were hailing her as a “great” actress; she almost always does the same “whiny” thing.
She’s a pretty mediocre actress. She’s been gone a while and I didn’t miss her. She seems to play the same bug-eyed neurotic chick in every movie. I don’t hate her, but I saw this post and immediately shrugged and thought, “Meh.”
Brittany > Reese
Oh, neat. I remember when the “Poor” story actually happened. That should make a great movie.
I was a big fan of her in Girl Interrupted. Unfortunately for her, she was outshone by Angelina Jolie’s performance in that movie. Come to find out, Angelina Jolie wasn’t really acting. ;)
Murphy’s best performance by far was her role in “Spun”. It was one of the most realistic portrayals of how the character would be in the respective real-life situation. Everything else was utterly forgettable.
I haven’t seen her in anything else other than Clueless.