Hugh Grant has exited Lost for Words, the Working Title-produced romantic comedy for Universal Pictures. Variety says creative differences were cited.
Grant had agreed last summer to play a British actor approached to star in a film by a Chinese director. After a flirtation with her translator, the actor falls for the director.
Ziyi Zhang is playing the director. Susanne Bier is directing the film, and Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Jonathan Cavendish. Jamie Curtis and Dan Mazer wrote the script.
A spokeswoman for Grant said, “They were not able to get a script everyone agreed on but its our understanding that Working Title is moving ahead with the project and Hugh wishes them well.”
