Hayden Panettiere to Knock Off Juno

Heroes (although I just accidentally typed “Hereos,” and now I want chocolate sandwich cookies with Hiro’s face on them) star Hayden Panettiere, everyone’s favorite quick-healing cheerleader, is now apparently going to be in Daydream Nation, the first of the inevitable freight-train of Juno knock-offs - er, sorry, “a reinvention of the coming-of-age story for the 21st century,” “an intellectual comedy a la Juno and Election” according to THR.

Does Panettiere have the same chops to be an “acerbic teen” in the style of Ellen Page? Igby Goes Down’s Kieran Culkin might be able to help her out as her clueless boyfriend and, with any luck, she’ll get a better script than Heroes usually gives her, but still, I’m not quite seeing this yet.