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Luke Greenfield (“Let’s Be Cops”, “The Girl Next Door”) will direct “Destiny”, based on a script he’s co-writing with Dana Stevens.
According to Deadline, the project – based at DreamWorks – has quite an interesting history, and Steven Spielberg has been linked to it from day one.
When he was 16, Greenfield’s mother wrote to Spielberg and attached her son’s Super-8 films, asking if he thought the kid might have what it took to become a filmmaker. The package reached Spielberg, who watched and responded with a two-page letter that featured advice about storytelling and encouragement that Greenfield keep at it. The letter ended with “maybe someday our paths with cross.”
That began to happen 16 years later when Spielberg saw The Girl Next Door and asked Greenfield to come in for a meeting. Surprised by the filmmaker with news that he’d lit a teenager’s fuse, Spielberg asked Greenfield to pitch something. He responded with Destiny, a supernatural love story about a struggling designer who must overcome his fears and uncertainty, a concept Greenfield wrote as a result of the letter in 1998. The filmmaker was under contract to New Regency and obliged to give them first crack at his material. It languished, and when Greenfield recently pitched it to DreamWorks president Holly Bario, she bought it.
DreamWorks is, of course, owned by Spielberg – so it’s all come full circle.
