Emma is currently in Los Angeles to film the Sofia Coppola-directed docudrama, “The Bling Ring”. New photos from the set, this time from 27 March 2012, have been added to the galleries and you can check them out here. Our previous update has further details into “The Bling Ring” script and Emma is rumoured to be playing the character of Nicki.

IndieWire.com have written up an article addressing Sofia Coppola’s upcoming film, “The Bling Ring”. In the article it is noted that the script is very short, only about eighty pages, and focuses on the real-life events surrounding a group of teenagers who plan and commit crimes against high-profile Hollywood residents.

The article also states that while Emma is leading an all-star cast, she is not essentially the lead role in the movie. Highlights from the article can be read below.

Coppola’s assembled an intriguing cast, led by Emma Watson, “American Horror Story” star Taissa Farmiga, Judd Apatow’s other half Leslie Mann (“Knocked Up”) and newcomers Israel Broussard, Katie Chang, Claire Pfister (daughter of Christopher Nolan’s DoP Wally) and Georgia Rock, along with Carlos Miranda (Tito in “Warrior”) who Variety reported a couple of days back had joined the cast.

But thanks to the real-life tale, it’s also got something more. The script opens (after a knowing quote from Nicole Ritchie’s Twitter page) in media res, with the gang breaking into a Hollywood mansion, followed by indicators of their future arrest, and glimpses of interviews by the teens with journalists after the fact. This structure runs throughout, and other than changing the names of the central characters, Coppola seems to have stuck closely to how the true events unfolded (if not necessarily the biographical facts), and it lends the script an almost-docu-drama feel throughout.

Also worth noting is that while Watson has widely been reported to be the lead, that’s not quite accurate. The entry-point character for the audience is Marc (Broussard), a fashion-obsessed (and seemingly gay, although it’s never stated outright) 16-year-old kid who starts at a new high school (based on Burglar Bunch member Nick Prugo), and quickly falls in with a Korean-American girl named Rebecca. It’s Rebecca (a character based on the real life figure Rachel Lee, and will presumably be played by newcomer Katie Chang) who’s the ringleader of the group, and arguably the female lead, while we suspect that Watson’s playing Nicki, a pretty teen with an ex-Playboy model mother (to be played by Mann) who schools her two daughters on the importance of finding fame.

“Wanna be thug” Chloe (possibly Farmiga’s part) and Nicki’s boyfriend, the Mexican bouncer Rob (presumably Miranda’s role), fall in with the gang, and soon they’re scouring gossip sites for the whereabouts of their favorite celebs, breaking and entering when they’re away and taking clothes, cash, naked photos and even a gun (from Brian Austin Green, of all people), using their spoils to finance a hard-partying, coke-snorting lifestyle, with little regard for the possibility of getting caught.

[...] Ultimately, Coppola, even more so than most filmmakers, uses her script as a skeleton, and much of what makes her films work (or otherwise) comes in the execution. With a cast so green, the movie will really hang on how well they can pull it off, but if nothing else, having Hermione Granger do a scantily-clad dance with a gun will get the attention of the mainstream media (the film is another smart choice for Watson, who looks like she could be a real force post-Potter). Things are certainly looking promising, all in all, and we’re excited to see the finished film: with shooting underway, we could end up seeing this before the year is out.

“The Bling Ring” is currently filming in Los Angeles.