how horrible...

SK8TR BOI movie comes from girl singer
Avril Lavigne song gets optioned

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Dateline: Wednesday, May 28, 2003

By: PATRICK SAURIOL
By: News Editor
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Pop singer Avril Lavigne has a hit with the song SK8TR BOI, about a girl who has a crush on a skateboarding guy but who decides not to go out with him because her friends don't think he's cool. It turns out that the skater guy grows up to become a rock star and now the young woman is regretting her past decision.

So it turns out that Paramount Pictures liked Lavigne's song enough to warrant the studio to option the movie rights for it. Naturally, MTV Films is one of the companies developing the project, with screenwriter David Zabel penning the movie script. The movie's storyline will keep the would-be lovers in their teenage years and focus on the pressures the teens have to remain within their own social groups.


If only William Shakespeare were alive today. Undoubtedly he would have made ROMEO AND JULIET a love story between a goth and a nerd.