Emily Ratajkowski Will Star in 1980s Romance CRUISE

After catching her big break in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" video a few years ago, model Emily Ratajkowski has definitely caught Hollywood's eye. David Fincher cast her in her first movie, Gone Girl, and since then she's starred in Entourage and the Zac Efron EDM movie We Are Your Friends. I just received a press release informing me of her newest film project, which is a 1980s-set romance called Cruise that's being directed by Robert Siegel.

Set during the summer of '87, CRUISE revolves around working-class Italian-American Gio Marchetti, who has little on his mind but racing cars and chasing girls. That is, until he meets Jessica Weintraub, a nice Jewish girl from Long Island who goes to Gio's neighborhood for some illicit thrills on the wrong side of the tracks. An affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era, CRUISE celebrates the joys of muscle cars, Motorola pagers and endless summer nights.

Siegel's filmography is all over the place. He wrote The Onion Movie, Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler, and the DreamWorks Animation film Turbo, and he also wrote and directed Big Fan, starring Patton Oswalt. This will be his second directorial effort, and considering how varied his career has been so far, I'm not really sure what to expect from this one.

21 Jump Street actor Spencer Boldman will play the lead role of Gio Marchetti in this film, and production begins sometime this fall in New York. Are you interested in seeing what Ratajkowski can do in a small scale romance like this?