Editorial Staff
Following Netflix pink-slipping the project, Warner Bros is circling the Nancy Meyers written/directed comedy that the streamer ultimately passed on due to an escalating budget.
Deadline reports that although no deal is done the Burbank-based studio is very interested in producing the It’s Complicated helmer’s film, which is said to have Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Owen Wilson and Michael Fassbender circling roles.
Meyers, whose worked with WB on The Intern starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, wanted a bigger budget than Netflix was prepared to offer her.
The tentatively titled Paris Paramount tells the story of an above-the-line filmmaking duo who reunite (begrudgingly) on set after falling in and out of love with each other.
