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Juno is the hot film with all the Oscar buzz and Diablo Cody is the woman behind the successful suprise hit. The ex-stripper who also blogs, had no formal training as a screenwriter. Cody (real name Brook Busey-Hunt,) has�a number of other�projects in the works.�The first one, the horror comedy�Jennifer’s Body, to begin filming in March with her Juno director Jason Reitman.

Reitman said he was amazed to find out that Cody — who banged out “Juno” on a laptop at a Starbucks in a suburban Target — had no formal training as a screenwriter. He also didn’t know her background as a one-time stripper.

“I thought, ‘This girl’s got a lotta wit,’ and the words on the page seemed to live up to the woman. I was also struck by how much heart she had,” Reitman recalls. “In our first meeting we talked … as much about the ending of the movie being moving as we talked about the beginning of the movie being kind of snappy and funny.”

Before the writer’s strike, Cody had a full dance card with a Steven Spielberg special for Showtime “The United States of Tara” starring Toni Collette, and a college comedy for Universal Studios called “Girly Style.” Let’s hope we see more from Cody soon.

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