First the D&D movie sequel, now this...

LOS ANGELES - Canadian teen singer Avril Lavigne's hit single about a teenage girl who rejects a skater boy is to be adapted into a feature film.

Paramount Pictures has hired ER writer/producer David Zabel to adapt the words of the song "Sk8ter Boi" into a movie, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Well, why not? Just about everything else has been turned into a feature film, and at least this flick comes with something vaguely approximating a plot. I actually surprised myself by not being able to come up with the expected level of cynicism over this one. It doesn't sound like it's going to be the standard sort of pop music movie, i.e. an thinly-veiled excuse for the artist to play as many of her songs as possible in a two-hour time period. However, it will probably make a lot of proto-punk teenage girls happy, and the message is better than a hell of a lot of what's being tossed at the world's youth these days. And yes, there's a decent chance that by any any real critical criteria the movie itself is going to be execrable, but it's not going to be any worse than what Adam Sandler (for just one example) is capable of on any given day.

Lavigne's writing team Matrix - Scott Spock, Lauren Christy and Graham Edwards - who co-wrote the song, will act as consultants on the screenplay.

They will also produce the movie soundtrack.

Hey, I think I guessed what one of the songs from the soundtrack is going to be! Aaaah, there's the cynicism...