Greta Gerwig lands lead, Orlando Bloom circling romantic comedy LOLA VERSUS

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Greta Gerwig has landed her first leading role in Fox Searchlight's Lola Versus. Orlando Bloom is close to a deal to star opposite Gerwig in the Daryl Wein romantic comedy. The film is being financed by Groundswell Productions with Fox Searchlight in talks to distribute. Lola Versus will also star Zoe Lister-Jones, who also co-wrote the script. Production is slated to begin this June in New York.

Gerwig plays "a woman who is dumped just weeks before her wedding by her college sweetheart (Bloom), prompting her to embark on a series of encounters in an attempt to discover her place in the world as a single woman before she turns 30."

Gerwig may be best known to many audiences from Arthur, but she got her start with indie fare such as LOLandBagheadbefore starring in Noah Baumbach's Greenberg as Ben Stiller's love interest. She ws recently seen opposite Natalie Portman in No Strings Attached and just finished filming Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress. Bloom will be seen next in Paul W.S. Anderson's 3D adaptation of The Three Musketeers, and is expected to reprise his Lord of the Rings role as Legolas in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.