Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I puta a Stone i roto i nga kiriata e toru i tukuna i te tau 2009. Ko te tuatahi o enei ko Matthew McConaughey, ko Jennifer Garner me Michael Douglas i roto i te Ghosts of Girlfriends Past a Mark Waters. I runga i te pukapuka a Charles Dickens' 1843 A Christmas Carol, ko te whakaari whakaari e whakaatu ana i a ia e mahi ana i te wairua e whakamataku ana i tana hoa rangatira o mua. Ko te urupare kino ki te kiriata he kino, ahakoa he angitu iti te hokohoko. Ko tana umanga tino whai hua i tera tau ko te kiriata whakawehi whakawehi a Ruben Fleischer mo te $ 102.3 miriona, ko Zombieland, i reira ia e mahi tahi ana me Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson me Abigail Breslin. I roto i te kiriata, i puta ia hei kaitoi tinihanga me te oranga o te zombie apocalypse, i roto i te mahi i kitea e te Chris Hewitt o Empire he "he mea kua oti te tuhi". I roto i te arotake pai ake, ka tuhia e te kaiwhakawhiwhi mo te Daily Telegraph: "Ko te Stone tino whakaari... [he] he pihikete pakeke e whakaatu ana i te ahua o te whakaaro nui atu i ona tau". Ko te putanga whakamutunga a Stone i te tau 2009 ko Kieran me Michelle Mulroney's Paper Man, he whakaari-whakaari i pouri ai nga kaiwhakawhiwhi. I whakaratohia e Stone te reo o te Hepara Ahitereiria i Marmaduke (2010), he whakakatakata mai i te kaiwhakahaere Tom Dey, i ahu mai i te tira pakiwaitara roa a Brad Anderson o te ingoa kotahi. I tae mai tana angitu i taua tau ano me te mahi rangatira i roto i te Easy A, he komihana taiohi na Will Gluck i whakahaere. I ahu mai i te pukapuka hitori a Nathaniel Hawthorne i te tau 1850, The Scarlet Letter, e whakaatu ana te kiriata i te korero mo Olive Penderghast (Stone), he akonga kura tuarua e uru ana ki roto i te taatai moepuku whakaari i muri i te whakapae teka kei te haereere ia. I panuihia e Stone te tuhinga i mua i te whakataunga o te kaupapa mo te whakaputa, a ka whai i a ia me tana kaiwhakahaere i te wa e whakaoti ana i nga korero mo te whakaputa. I kitea e ia te tuhinga "he rereke, he ahurei mai i nga mea katoa i panuihia e au i mua", e kii ana he "harikoa, he reka hoki". I te kitenga o Stone kua tiimata te mahi kiriata, ka tutaki ia ki a Gluck, e whakaatu ana i tona ngakau nui mo te kaupapa. I etahi marama i muri mai,  Pātai: Ko wai i tūtaki a Stone ki a ia i te tīmatanga o te kiriata?
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