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Details Emerge On James L. Brooks’ Sixth Directorial Effort, Including Rudd & Wilson As Possible Male Leads!!

Published at:  Feb 17, 2009 11:27:59 PM CST

I am – Hercules!!



James L. Brooks’ sixth project as a writer-director, titled “How Do You Know?”, is about an executive and a baseball pro both chasing the same girl, according to Wednesday morning's Variety.

Paul Rudd (“Role Models”) is being sought for the exec, Owen Wilson (“Marley and Me”) for the ballplayer. Reese Witherspoon (“Four Christmases”) has long been attached as the girl.

Brooks’ five previous directorial efforts are “Terms of Endearment” (which won Brooks three Oscars -- for best director, best adapted screenplay and best picture), “Broadcast News” (Oscar-nominated for best picture), “I’ll Do Anything,” “As Good As It Gets” (Oscar-nominated for best picture) and “Spanglish.”

I love all the Oscar-nominated ones; hopefully "How" will be one of those.

Brooks also co-created "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and scripted the hilarious Burt Reynolds vehicle "Starting Over."

Shooting was set to start in March, but Sony is now looking for a summer start.

Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.



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  • Feb 17, 2009 11:18:13 PM CST

    Hey Herc

    by conniebrean1

    get the fuck back to coaxial. You're bush league, Herc! Bush league! Movies are for the big boys. Incidentally, when is Simpsons Season 12 coming out?

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  • Feb 17, 2009 11:33:13 PM CST

    Simpsons Season 12 release date

    by white goodman

    Who gives a shit?

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  • Feb 17, 2009 11:46:21 PM CST

    Must be a hell of a script ......

    by aloy

    ...'cause this sounds dry as toast.

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  • Feb 17, 2009 11:53:30 PM CST

    Fuck this. For something interesting....visit the Terminator TB.

    by dannyglovers_dickblood

    Anyone excited about a Paul Rudd film is a fucking cunt.The end.

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  • Feb 18, 2009 12:04:37 AM CST

    I would have guessed Rainn not Owen

    by quin the eskimo

    oh well, It would have been better.

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  • Feb 18, 2009 5:56:23 AM CST

    Spanglish=SHIT

    by broseph

  • Feb 18, 2009 6:04:59 AM CST

    i can't officially be on board yet

    by juror number 8

    until i actually see this movie. i love terms of endearment, broadcast news, and as good as it gets, but spanglish was just so incredibly bad and despicable that i have lost a lot of faith in his skills. sitting through spanglish, i was thinking how astonishingly awful it was and if brooks was ever going to recover.

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  • Feb 18, 2009 6:20:12 AM CST

    Hes made one good film.

    by whinynegativebitch

    Broadcast News had a lot of interesting content, but was emotionally flat and unfunny. The other three just fucking suck. This sounds completely uninteresting too, but Rudd and Wilson are both talented (even if in Wilsons case he seems almost supernaturally determined to make the worst career decisions possible).

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  • Feb 18, 2009 8:20:36 AM CST

    Reese = MILFtastic.

    by pennsy

  • Feb 18, 2009 3:29:12 PM CST

    Hooray!

    by elohim

    James L. Brooks gets a lifetime pass for Broadcast News. Some of the best banter ever put to film. I don't know what someone who thinks it was emotionally flat and unfunny is doing in a Brooks talkback.

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  • Feb 18, 2009 4:49:42 PM CST

    Everyone shut the fuck up. The man is a genius

    by proman1984

    And this project will rule.

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