The cast already includes Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem and is a joint collaboration between Miramax and Paramount Classics and is an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel.
Set in West Texas in 1980, the story is about a young Vietnam vet (Brolin) who stumbles over the remnants of a drug deal gone bad. He’s hunted by two extremely vicious assassins who want the money back.
The Variety article goes on to say that Brolin just wrapped the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino pic Grind House for Dimension, and moves into the Karen Moncrieff-directed indie The Dead Girl. Word lately has been that Rodriguez’s portion of Grind House, “Planet Terror”, had been put on hold, so possibly those rumors were false or this just means that Brolin’s portion is finished.
20th Century Fox has acquired Mark Legan and Mark Wilding’s pitch Family Time. The story is described as a family time-travel adventure, similar in tone to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
Columbia Pictures has acquired Jonathan Davis’ baseball comedy pitch Unsportsmanlike Conduct. The story is said to be similar to The Bad News Bears, only with adults, as it chronicles what happens when a major league expansion team hires a statistician to assess the league’s best available players. But that numbers-only strategy leaves the team with all of the league’s head cases.
