Winona Ryder is to team up with director Michael Lehmann once again on the independent comedy
Mary Warner, according to Variety.
Ryder will play a slacker actress who trips her way through a series of life-changing misadventures after eating a batch of marijuana-laced brownies made by her stoner roommate.
It's Ryder's first true lead role since she was sidetracked by a trial and shoplifting conviction. Trying to regain career momentum, Ryder chose a script reminiscent of her career-making dark comedy
Heathers, and recruited that film's director. The script was written by actor Dylan Haggerty, Lehmann said.
"It's more like a dysfunctional 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' than a stoner movie because the humor and characters are as much layered and sophisticated as visual," Lehmann said. "It is a good choice for Winona, who hasn't really done comedy since
Heathers, and is very good at it."
Scheduled to begin shooting in L.A. on Jan. 15.