We have two new screening updates for you this Friday afternoon. According to Deadline, actor-turned-writer Jason Fuchs has been hired to write The Clock Without a Face for Paramount and Montecito Picture Company.
Fuchs will adapt the script from the puzzle oriented children’s book, which will center “on the pursuit of the jeweled numerals stolen off a legendary ancient clock which legened has it gives the possessor the ability to control time.” He has also co-scripted the upcoming Ice Age: Contintential Drift, as well as the revamped Cinderella picture Ragz for Nickelodeon. Fuchs has a definite tie to the children/teen writing scene, considering he was also just hired by Gold Circle to adapt Daniel Waters’ teen thriller Break My Heart 1000 Times. These are some pretty big projects for somebody who’s only 25 years-old.
In other writing news, rookie screenwriters Benji Cosgrove and Cory Palmer have been tapped to write a currently untitled R-rated comedy for Escape Artists.
THR informs us that the plot of the film is being kept secret, but we do know that it will be a “winter-related family comedy.” Escape Artists’ Todd Black, Steve Tisch and Jason Blumenthal will produce the project. Since they’re not really providing much information on the project, I can only speculate what the script will entail. Let’s just hope that this won’t be anything like The Family Stone.
The writing duo have also been hired to write another R-rated comedy titled Deadbeat Dad, with Jack and Jill‘s Todd Garner producing.
What do you think about either of these projects?