Original Film is boarding Paramount Pictures' big-screen adaptation of the TV series 21 Jump Street. Original's Neal Moritz will produce 21 Jump Street with Stephen J. Cannell and Douglas Rosen, while Original's Tania Landau will executive produce. The project has been in development for a couple of years at the studio, which originally made a deal in 2002 with series co-creators Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh to pen the project. The project is out to writers. Airing from 1987-90 on Fox, 21 Jump Street followed a group of cops who worked undercover in high schools. The series helped launch the career of Johnny Depp. Other cast members included Peter DeLuise, Holly Robinson Peete, Dustin Nguyen and Richard Grieco. Other current Original projects include To Catch a Thief, the remake of the Hitchcock classic that Original is producing for Paramount. Other features from the Sony-based shingle include 2 Fast 2 Furious, S.W.A.T. and Out of Time.
- 4/21/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Original Film is boarding Paramount Pictures' big-screen adaptation of the TV series 21 Jump Street. Original's Neal Moritz will produce 21 Jump Street with Stephen J. Cannell and Douglas Rosen, while Original's Tania Landau will executive produce. The project has been in development for a couple of years at the studio, which originally made a deal in 2002 with series co-creators Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh to pen the project. The project is out to writers. Airing from 1987-90 on Fox, 21 Jump Street followed a group of cops who worked undercover in high schools. The series helped launch the career of Johnny Depp. Other cast members included Peter DeLuise, Holly Robinson Peete, Dustin Nguyen and Richard Grieco. Other current Original projects include To Catch a Thief, the remake of the Hitchcock classic that Original is producing for Paramount. Other features from the Sony-based shingle include 2 Fast 2 Furious, S.W.A.T. and Out of Time.
- 4/21/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gurinder Chadha, director of last year's indie hit Bend It Like Beckham, is attached to helm Nine Wives, a romantic comedy at New Line Cinema that Neal Moritz is producing with Michael Pierce, Mark Williams and Tania Landau. Wives is about a commitment-phobic guy who breaks up with his longtime girlfriend and begins to wake up every morning with a different wife. It marks the third project the director has attached herself to since her indie soccer film hit the big time, scoring $32.5 million at the domestic boxoffice. She is developing I Dream of Jeannie at Columbia as well as Tucker Ames at Fox 2000. The original draft for Wives was written by Scott Fifer. The project is now out to writers for a rewrite, and Chadha will work with them to develop the project. Stokely Chaffin, George Waud and Jeff Katz are overseeing the project at the studio. The ICM-repped Chadha is completing Bride and Prejudice, a Bollywood musical version of Pride and Prejudice, for Pathe U.K. and Miramax Films.
- 3/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Columbia Pictures will remake the 1986 TriStar actioner Let's Get Harry, which Neal Moritz will produce through his studio-based Original Films. Screenwriter Scott Rosenberg is writing the remake with Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, who worked together on the Rosenberg-executive-produced Showtime series Going to California. The original Harry stars Mark Harmon as an American engineer taken hostage and held for ransom in the jungles of South America along with an American ambassador. A group of men -- played by Robert Duvall and Gary Busey, among others -- set out to rescue him. The new version will center on a group of men going to rescue their buddy, who has been taken hostage, despite others urging them to forget it because he may not even be alive anymore. Moritz is producing the project, with Original executive Tania Landau overseeing. Columbia's Matt Tolmach and Rachel O'Connor are the executives on the project. Rosenberg, repped by CAA, has written such films as Kangaroo Jack, Con Air, Gone in Sixty Seconds and Beautiful Girls. Appelbaum and Nemec, repped by Endeavor, were most recently writers and producers on television's Fastlane. Other credits include TV's She Spies, The Chronicle and Profiler. All three writers are also repped by Offer Webber and Dern Llp.
Columbia Pictures has paid low- against mid-six figures to acquire the spec screenplay Made of Honor by first-time writer Adam Sztykiel that studio-based Original Films will produce. Honor is a male-driven romantic comedy about a guy whose dream girl asks him to be her maid of honor. He agrees in an attempt to win her heart. The project will be produced by Original's Neal Moritz and Tania Landau and Sztykiel's managers Aaron Kaplan and Sean Perrone. Director of development Amanda Cohen brought the project to Original. "I'm thrilled to be doing this project with Neal and Original," Sztykiel said. "They make great movies, and I'm excited to be part of their team." Columbia executive Amy Baer will oversee the project for the studio. Sztykiel, who signed with UTA last week, is additionally repped by Colden McKuin Frankel.
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