Untitled Dan Fogelman Film

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WB Buys Cruise-Attached Pic in 7-Figure Deal

Warner Bros has emerged the victor in a spirited bidding battle for a Dan Fogelman pitch that has Tom Cruise attached to star. Five studios were in the mix after Fogelman met with all of them yesterday to pitch the film he'll write. I'm told the deal was just under $2 million upfront against just higher than $3 million if the movie gets made.

The [Untitled Dan Fogelman pitch] has Tom Cruise attached to play a politician who gets caught in an affair. With his reputation in tatters, the pol retreats to his hometown to lick his wounds, repair relationships and confront his past.

It's not surprising that Warner Bros would be aggressive. The studio paid $2.5 million for "Crazy, Stupid Love" and turned it into a much-buzzed-about summer film that will star Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling.

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Warners Shells out the Big Bucks for New Tom Cruise Project



Movie News By Nathan Adams on April 22, 2011

Dan Fogelman is one of the most successful screenwriters currently writing in Hollywood. He’s done a lot of huge animated movies like Cars, Bolt, and Tangled, and most recently he sold a script for the upcoming Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling vehicle Crazy, Stupid, Love. It was Warner Bros who paid 2.5 million for the rights to that film, and now they’ve won another bid to buy Fogelman’s next script. Reportedly for quite a bit of cheddar. This one sounds smaller and more character driven than what we’ve seen from Fogelman so far. It even has the usual, indie, ambitious person shamed into going back to their hometown story. This time the main character is a successful politician who has his life and career ruined by an affair that gets exposed by the media.

But, despite Fogelman’s success so far, maybe the biggest news about this project is that Tom Cruise is already attached to star. In an industry where the forward momentum of a project can live or die on its attachment to a brand name, that has to be seen as a big asset. Tom Cruise is one of the biggest name brands in Hollywood. Not even videotaped craziness and an attachment to a strange, probably evil religion can ruin this guy’s bulletproof nature at the box office. I mean, other than Knight and Day. That didn’t go so well for anybody. Finger crossed for this one though!

Source: Deadline Wichita
www.deadline.com/2011/04/dan-fogelman-tom-cruise-at-center-of-pitch-auction/