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HBO has been leaking info for Tilda, its pilot about bloggers bits at a time, perhaps to avoid self-deprecating headlines such as ours. But today some big news on the new show was release: Diane Keaton and Ellen Page have been signed on for lead roles in the pilot. “Tilda” deals with Keaton’s titular character, “a powerful and much-feared Hollywood blogger” who “may or may not” be based on Deadline Hollwood’s Nikki Finke. In the Devil Wears Prada/Ugly Betty vein, Page will play the young, not-yet-world-weary creative assistant who has trouble adapting to the morally grey area of a corporate studio, and following (leaking stories to?) Keaton’s character.
We love the casting of this: Keaton can totally pull of the no-nonsense insidery-gossip tone that Finke displays in her blog, while Juno‘s Page totally has that wry voice and unconventional style that reminds us of ourselves back before we all became jaded working for the man, forced between pulling in a giant paycheck and getting to mercilessly call out those who do on their B.S. Too bad the title Defamer was already taken.
If the pilot gets off the ground, this will be Keaton’s first television role, which signals that the script may have been too juicy to pass up. Nikki’s only comment about the writer’s inspiration for the part? “Hmm, wonder where the inspiration for that character came from.”
