Get a Clue With The New Nancy Drew: Emma Roberts
For female readers of crime fiction, there's one name who got you hooked: Nancy Drew. Sleuth (a cool word for detective). Titian haired (you had to look that one up).
A brainy girl with a keen sense of adventure -- "as sharp as Miss Marple and as brave as Emma Peel - all while navigating the perils of girlhood. For 75 years and in dozens of books, graphic novels and video games, she has never failed to crack a case or outwit a villain.
That's why casting the title role in the big-screen NANCY DREW opening Friday, was key: beyond her titian hair and penny loafers, everybody has a different idea of just who Nancy is and how she should look."
Warner Bros. new NANCY DREW (with Nickelodeon-minted starlet Emma Roberts) is fine-tuned for the 'tween girls who'd like to think they're the first to discover their crime-solving heroine, and their big sisters, moms and grandmothers who've been enjoying the books for decades. Opening this weekend against FANTASTIC FOUR: SILVER SURFER and the kickass DOA: DEAD OR ALIVE, this kind of teen-girl adventure won't be a blockbuster. But it will make a movie star out of young Roberts.
I doubt that her young fans will appreciate the comparison, but her Nancy Drew -- transported by the screenwriters from River Heights, U.S.A. to Los Angeles -- does more serious, nuts and bolts private investigating than a Raymond Chandler hero.