After her reportedly Award-worthy turn opposite Ryan Gosling in this year’s Sundance disintegrating couple drama Blue Valentine, Michelle Williams will star opposite Seth Rogen in the Sarah Polley-directed Take the Waltz, according to Deadline Hollywood.

Waltz is the story of a commitment-phobic woman who must confront the fact that she only likes the Honeymoon period of relationships.

Polley, who also wrote the script, showed the type of promise in her directorial debut, 2006’s Away From Her, that some filmmakers don’t realize late into their careers. It’s also good to see a movie being made about the woman being the commitment-phobe rather than the commitment-ends-all-problems mentality of stereotyped female characters in many a Hollywood romantic comedy, and love of the Honeymoon period of a relationship is something anybody can relate to regardless of age or gender.

Williams has definitely shown that she has far better acting chops than the rest of the Dawson’s Creek cast. Polley proved she can utilize the natural talent of great actresses by directing Julie Christie all the way to a late-career Oscar nom in Away From Her, so no doubt she can do the same with the growing talent of Williams. The wild card here is Seth Rogen who, despite being a fellow Canadian, seems out of Polley’s league. It all depends, of course, on what tone she’s going for. My guess is that with the younger cast, the lighter subject matter, and the presence of Rogen, Polley will be going for a dramedy or a tragicomic tone rather that the seriousness of her debut film. Source

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