This year’s Golden Globe nominee, Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) is joining forces with her producing partner, Per Saari, once again to head a remake of the 1973 Alan J. Pakula comedy-drama Love & Pain & the Whole Damn Thing. Hit the jump to find out all the details!
TheWrap reveals that Kidman will be joined by fellow producers Laura Ziskin and Susan Landau for the project based on the Alvin Sargent script. The website adds these specifics about the story: “Maggie Smith and Timothy Bottoms starred in the original film, which followed two tourists in Spain who cross paths and begin to fall for one another. While neither is especially confident in the relationship’s long-term prospects, they eventually develop a unique bond.”
While Kidman is committed this year to projects like Hemingway & Gellhorn opposite Clive Owen in a romance about Ernest Hemingway’s inspiration for writing For Whom The Bell Tolls, Joel Schumacher’s crime thriller Trespass with Nicolas Cage, and The Danish Girl for 2012 as painter Einar Wegener, Love & Pain & the Whole Damn Thing is in its earliest stages while making headlines, according to TotalFilm.
The website also adds hope that Kidman’s romance with this remake takes an exciting leap beyond what failed between Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp in The Tourist. However, if you’re a fan of Kidman’s you can catch her cameo role in the romantic-comedy Just Go With It, alongside Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, due out next month. Or simply watch all the upcoming awards shows since she is currently in the Oscar race for her dramatic and raw turn in John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole.
Perhaps not by mere coincidence, Kidman’s country crooning husband, Keith Urban, released an album called Love & Pain & the Whole Damn Thing in 2006 dedicated to the Oscar winner. Sounds fitting for a country record.
As more details of casting and production unfold about this project still in infancy, Movie Buzzers will keep readers updated! Have you seen the original? What do you think of Kidman taking on the film?
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