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Hit-Girl’s career continues to barrel forward, this time with her first big, starring dramatic gig. Variety](http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118020071.html?categoryid=3768&cs=1&nid=2562&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+variety%2Fheadlines+(Variety+-+Latest+News)&utm_content=Google+Reader) reports that Chloe Moretzwill star in Andrea Portes’ adaptation of her 2007 novel, Hick](Hick (2011) - IMDb), and Derick Martini, one half of the Martini Brothers behind Lymelife, will direct.
Portes’ debut book focuses on a Nebraska girl named Luli who runs away to Las Vegas. Her mother – an “aging Brigitte Bardot” – and father have run off, leaving Luli alone at home with a Smith and Wesson .45. She grabs the gun and starts hitching rides to Vegas, where she faces a number of unsafe and unsavory types from a drug addict to a rapist. In other words, it basically takes the cinematically adventurous kid-on-his-own story of Moretz’s Hugo Cabret and gives it a heavy and unsafe dose of reality.
Something tells me that Moretz is done with the 100 Acre Wood. After a decent stint lending her voice to My Friends Tigger & Pooh, she quickly jumped up to the typical wise-for-her-years Rachel in (500) Days of Summer before becoming the “It” Girl Hit-Girl and snagging a number of lead roles in the likes of The Fields, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and this fall’s vampire romance Let Me In. Think she’s ready for something a little heavier, or does this sort of drama just reek of Dakota Fanning territory?