Written Off

Another one written for the tumblr shuffle synopsis meme. This one is based on "Don't You Want Me".

T.R. Ellsbury (Depp) has been hailed as the literary genius of his generation, but in spite of his intellectual background, Ellsbury finds himself writing young adult fantasy novels in his spare time. Ashamed of his “trashy” writing, he hires cocktail waitress Haverty Cane (Stone) to be the face of his young adult series.

Five years down the line, Haverty is tired of just being the public face behind Ellsbury’s books and decides to pen her own. Terrified of the damage Haverty could cause should her own writing prove to be less than stellar, he attempts to get rid of her, but she threatens to expose him to the literary world and works on her own novel with her snarky editor Gwen Pollock (Bullock).

When her own novel becomes a huge success, she’s launched into the world of the literary elite and even snags the interest of Hollywood producer Donovan Cooper (Gosling). As her own success grows, Haverty becomes less inclined to continue working with Ellsbury, but as she starts falling for Cooper the truth threatens to come out. Meanwhile, Ellsbury must choose between losing his teen fiction outlet or exposing the truth about Haverty’s beginnings and risk taking himself down with her.