Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Jon Tuteltaub Has Unreasonable Doubt

Jon Tuteltaub Has Unreasonable Doubt
A legal rom-com concept...

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Jon Tuteltaub Has Unreasonable Doubt

While his last venture for Disney, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, didn’t earn quite get to National Treasure levels at the box office, it still scooped in $215 million around the world. Which means Jon Turteltaub isn’t locked in Director Jail just yet: Universal has bought the romantic comedy script pitch Unreasonable Doubt and Turteltaub is negotiating to direct.

A rom-com riff that takes the jury room tensions best fictionalised in legal evergreen 12 Angry Men, Doubt follows what happens when two jurors fall in love during a case.

Marc Klein, who wrote the Doubt script, has the likes of Serendipity and A Good Year on his CV, and is currently adapting hit musical In the Heights for the big screen, along with TMI, a rom-com about best pals who sleep together but feel their relationship is doomed because they already know way too much about each other. Oh, and Klein also has a history with Turteltaub – he was his assistant on When You Were Sleeping way back in 1995.

Turteltaub still has the possibility of National Treasure 3 on his schedule, though that one is still in development, along with a film about the founding of Greenpeace.

Source: EmpireOnline

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