Indie darlings Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are being paired up in a romantic comedy. They’re in negotiations with Fox Searchlight, an indie distributor, which hopefully means it’s not the sort of vomitous romance dreck usually released by major studios starring JLo. Instead, it’s probably the kind of boring, lukewarm blah that rom-coms always seem to be whenever they’re done by independent filmmakers. Well I don’t care. I’ll follow Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zoeey Deschanel anywhere, even into the depths of meet-cute hell.

EW says the rom-com in question is something called 500 Days of Summer, a title which ought to look pretty good on a shelf next to 50 First Dates and every movie Josh Hartnett has ever been in. Hopefully, in quality at least, it’ll skew more 50 First Dates than hit or miss Hartnett. Maybe not though, since it’s directed by Mark Webb, one of those music video refugee directors who seem to either turn into Spike Jonze or the American equivalent of Uwe Boll. There’s no middle ground.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who probably should have been nominated for an Oscar last year but wasn’t because Oscar voters have only a 2-month memory, can next be seen in Stop-Loss this weekend. Zoeey Deschanel, aside from being seen nightly in my dreams, can be found roaming the streets of Austin making music. No really, she has an album coming out. If you’ve seen Elf, then you know that’s a good thing.