Abigail Breslin will lead the cast in Trudie Styler‘s Freak Show. The planned movie is based on the book by James St. James, which Styler, wife of legendary rock star Sting, will make her feature directing debut with.
Here’s the official description of the plot of the source material from Amazon.
Meet Billy Bloom, new student at the ultra-white, ultra-rich, ultra-conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower Academy and drag queen extraordinaire. Actually, ‘drag queen’ does not begin to describe Billy and his fabulousness. Any way you slice it, Billy is not a typical seventeen-year-old, and the Bible Belles, Aberzombies, and Football Heroes at the academy have never seen anyone quite like him before. But thanks to the help and support of one good friend, Billy’s able to take a stand for outcasts and underdogs everywhere in his own outrageous, over-thetop, sad, funny, brilliant, and unique way.
Breslin will play the chief cheerleader in the movie, and Bette Midler, AnnaSophia Robb, Ian Nelson and Lorraine Toussaint will also appear.
