Editorial Staff
“Brokeback Mountain” twosome Jake Gyllenhall and Anne Hathaway (they played a doomed couple in Ang Lee’s masterpiece) are in negotiations to reunite for “Love and Other Drugs” at Fox 2000/New Regency.
The project, originally set up at Universal until they put the project into turnaround, will be directed by “Defiance” and “Glory” helmer Ed Zwick.
Charles Randolph (“The Interpreter”) adapted the script from Jamie Reidy’s nonfiction book “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman.”
Reidy was a drug rep for Pfizer in the late 1990s who eventually wrote a memoir that shined a light on the practices of the pharmaceutical industry. Gyllenhaal will play the salesman, who begins a relationship with a woman who has Parkinson’s (Hathaway) while on one of his sales calls. Their love story plays out in the political and social context of the time.
Fox is in the process of obtaining the rights from Universal, which had put the project into turnaround. The filmmakers hope to begin shooting in the fall.
Hathaway also had been considering filling Reese Witherspoon’s role in “Tokyo Suckerpunch” at Sony but can’t match schedules with would-be co-star Tobey Maguire, who shoots “Spider-Man 4” next year.
There’s more at The Hollywood Reporter
