Emma Roberts is becoming a busy young actress. The niece-of-Julia (that name extension isn’t likely to go away just yet), has just finished detective work on Nancy Drew and has leapt on board Rodeo Gal.
She’ll play the lead, a young horse-rider who falls in lurve with this totally dreamy cowboy and – for reasons best left to scriptwriter Katie Wech, who pitched the idea – ends up entering the rodeo.
"This is material kids haven't seen, a marriage between the elegant equestrian world and the rough rodeo, with all the conflicts," blabbed producer Jerry Weintraub to Variety.