Sheldon Turner, the Oscar-winning co-writer of Up in the Air, has a revenge project he wants for his directorial debut. Turner wrote the script and now may have Colin Farrell and Eric Bana attached in the near future. [/Film]
The film is being financed by Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures, with Jennifer Klein and Turner producing. The screenplay concerns “a professional and personal relationship between two characters that evolves from friendship to betrayal and retribution.” [Deadline Hollywood]
For those who don’t remember, Chartier is the Hurt Locker producer who got dis-invited to the Oscars because of his emails to Academy voters dissuading them to vote for that “$500 million movie.”
As for Farrell, I’ve got to get him my script because it would appear he can’t say no these days. Between this and Fright Night and Horrible Bosses and a few other potential projects (not to mention Ondine, which is in theaters, and London Boulevard and The Way Back, both in the can), the young man’s making the most of his In Bruges-fueled comeback.
What do you think of Turner’s Up in the Air? This new project? Starring Farrell and Bana?