Actress Nina Dobrev, star of The CWâs The Vampire Diaries, has landed a role in Stephen Chboskyâs adaptation of his novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The cast now includes Emma Watson, Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson series), and Mae Whitman (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World). Deadline reports that Dobrev will play Candace in the coming of age story âabout 15-year-old Charlie (Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs.â Summit Entertainment is distributing the film.The report also mentions Paul Rudd as being a part of the cast, though doesnât specify which role he will play. Whitman is poised to take on the role of Mary Elizabeth, a tattooed vegetarian who acts as the protagonistâs first girlfriend. Hit the jump for a synopsis of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.Hereâs the synopsis for The Perks of Being a Wallflower:
Charlie, the wallflower of the title, goes through a veritable bath of bathos in his 10th grade year, 1991. The novel is formatted as a series of letters to an unnamed âfriend,â the first of which reveals the suicide of Charlieâs pal Michael. Charlieâs responseâvalid enoughâis to cry. The crying soon gets out of hand, thoughâin subsequent letters, his father, his aunt, his sister and his sisterâs boyfriend all become lachrymose. Charlie has the usual dire adolescent problemsâsex, drugs, the thuggish football teamâand they perplex him in the usual teen TV ways. Into these standard teenage issues Chbosky infuses a droning insistence on Charlieâs supersensitive disposition. Charlieâs English teacher and others have a disconcerting tendency to rhapsodize over Charlieâs giftedness, which seems to consist of Charlieâs unquestioning assimilation of the teacherâs taste in books. In the end we learn the root of Charlieâs psychological problems, and we confront, with him, the coming rigors of 11th grade, ever hopeful that heâll find a suitable girlfriend and increase his vocabulary. [Amazon]