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“Mean Girls” helmer directing Joshua Ferris’ comedy-drama
“Mean Girls” helmer Mark Waters will direct Joshua Ferris’ comedy-drama “Seven Days” for Universal Pictures, says The Hollywood Reporter.
The script chronicles seven pivotal days in a man’s life during the course of 20 years, with each segment of the film beginning as he wakes up that day.
Ferris, a National Book Award finalist for his novel “Then We Came to the End,” signed his contract before the recent WGA strike. “I can’t remember large periods of my life that well, but certain days stick in my mind, for good reasons and bad,” he said, noting the origin of the “Seven” plot. “At the end, hopefully it will be a portrait of a life as it’s lived.”
Tuchinsky and Ferris first discussed the idea a year ago and developed it for six months, eventually bringing it to Universal exec Peter Cramer to develop at the studio. Ferris is waiting for the end of the strike to resume work on the script and hasn’t yet finalized which days of the lead character’s life will appear in the final version.
Waters next project is the comedy “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.
