The Jason Sudeikis-led Fletch Reboot Heads to Relativity

The Fletch franchise has found a new home today as The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the big screen rights to the Gregory McDonald novel series have moved from Warner Bros. Pictures to Relativity. There, plans are underway to get a new Fletch film into production with the previously-attached Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses, “Saturday Night Live”) still set to headline. 

The original novel series, first published in 1974 with “Fletch,” offers a humorous take on an LA-based investigative journalist. The first book spawned 11 sequels and served as the basis for a 1985 film that starred Chevy Chase in the lead. Chase would return to the character in 1989 for a sequel, Fletch Lives, not specifically based on any of the books. Since then, various attempts have been initiated to bring Irwin “Fletch” Fletcher back to the big screen. Filmmakers like Kevin Smith and Bill Lawrence have both been attached in the past to adapt the book series’ eighth entry, “Fletch Won,” which serves as the character’s “origin story.”

No director is currently attached to the new Fletch project, but Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh is set to produce alongside David List, John Rickard and the Boies/Schiller Film Group’s Zach Schiller. Relativity’s Tucker Tooley and Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Michael Sugar will then serve as executive producers.

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