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EXCLUSIVE: The Juno team of director Jason Reitman, screenwriter Diablo Cody, Mandate Pictures and the production company Mr. Mudd are teaming again on Young Adult with Charlize Theron starring. The film’s being produced by Cody, Mason Novick, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith of John Malkovich’s Mr. Mudd banner. Mandate’s Nathan Kahane and Malkovich are exec producers. I’m told that Reitman has brought in Indian Paintbrush’s Steven Rales to possibly co-finance with Mandate and he will be an exec producer as well. Several studios are interested in making the picture, but it hasn’t crystallized yet. The plan is to get the film into production in New York on November 10 if all works out, with Reitman directing. Cody won an Oscar for her Juno script and Reitman was also nominated.
Theron plays a ghostwriter of young adult novels who plots to reclaim her identity. Her campaign involves going back and rekindling a relationship with her high school boyfriend — who’s freshly married, is a new father, and wants no part of her. While she works on her plan, the ghostwriter reengages with high school acquaintances and their experiences in trying to fulfill all those high school hopes and dreams that often get crushed by the realities of life.
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Oh my God haters. Look, I am an unsuccessful screenwriter, and I understand the feelings of jealousy that can come from looking at success. But I also understand that these feelings will get me nowhere. It is a much smarter approach to study success, to try and see what successful people are doing right. Either take this as a little trade secret, or ignore it. I don’t care. But know this: your jealousy will destroy you before it destroys Diablo Cody.
Thanks for a sensible post. Misdirected hate is way too popular these days.
Yeah! Now directed hate is the way to go! In fact, laser guided, precision hate!
I love how anyone who dislikes Cody or her vacuous scripts is immediately “jealous” in the eyes of her defenders. Personally I think she’s a talentless hack but still admire her success.
@ Digger
Thanks.
@ Ripsnorter
LOL
Totally agree with you Jonathan. Diablo was not a success by accident or fluke. Clearly her words in “Juno” and to a lesser degree “Jennifer’s Body”, whether folks like it or not, resonated with a vast number of people across this red, white and blue country.
So instead of spewing invective and Hater-Ade (also sprayed in prodigious amounts after public posts about the interview show Diablo now hosts) people should take time to study her writing of glean an insight or two from her meteoric rise that can help/inform their own writing or further their careers, even if the sole takeaway is how to tap the zeitgeist as deftly as she has or promote oneself with unrivaled efficacy.
The community of writers in Hollywood would do well to embrace Diablo. As we all know writing is hard as hell to do and harder to succeed at (sorry for dangling the preposition!) She has broken through. I surely wonder how much of the agita about her or her work stems from her being a woman who is sassy, talented and full of moxie.
@ Bobby
Yeah! We read a few scenes from Juno for a UCLA Extension class I’m taking. They are very well constructed, and full of subtleties, which I think is why she won the Oscar.
I agree with you about the last part. If Diablo were a man people wouldn’t flood message boards with hateful comments every time she announces a project.
why does everyone think hate means jealousy? what do people have to be jealous about? if i was jealous about her success, i’d also be jealous of filmmakers like chris nolan — but actually he’s an inspiration. no one wishes they had written ‘JUNO’
@ Blom
Oh, OK. I guess your hate is just plain old hate then. Sorry, you are exempt.
…except you.
One can “hate” (your word) without being jealous.
I hate Teabaggers, but I am not jealous of them.
sounds riveting
so many of these people’s comments are so negative. you are all lime green jello!
Oh God, our hero tries to rekindling a relationship with her high school boyfriend — who’s freshly married, is a new father, and wants no part of her…. Where did we see this? Oh yeah, in My Best Friend’s Wedding where Julia Roberts wanted reconcile and date with her old friend who was getting married, was madly in love and didn’t care about Julia’s “love” for him.
Is Charlize Theron the victim of Oscar curse too? Because after Oscar she basically slowly started to vanish. She did some movies but nothing spectacular. Nothing to remember. She ended up by playing supporting roles in Hancock and Road and In the Valley of Elah. In her IMDB profile there is listed three movies that I don’t even rememver coming out to big screen. Sleepwalking (2008),
Battle in Seattle (2007), The Burning Plain (2008). I never even heard of them. There are some Indies that end up in spotlight like Juno and Little miss Sunshine and there are hundreds of other that no one cares about. They vanish. No box-office and no attention from critics.
Wasn’t Charlize some Goddess couple of years ago? Some superfamous Diva on the level with Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts? On the every list of most beautiful and sexy women. She is 35-years old. She is not old. Why did she vanished from her superstar status? Even Jennifer Aniston can score a movie role.
It’s funny how all those pretty girls come and vanish 5-6 years after but only Meryl Streep stays in box-office and awards EVERY year…
Almost all of the world’s finest screenwriters are over 50. And most are men.
Hooray Diablo for breaking from these boxes. She is young and, in my opinion, could go right to the very top. She has a very modern sense of dialogue and character.
Who are we to comment with such vitriol?
This is not about being a hater. Just read the synopsis and you automatically know the moral lesson. It reeks of been there, done that and audiences have just had it. C’mon is that a premise that’s going to make you shell out $11.00 even if you’re on a date night? I think the failure of Jennifers Body really scared the shit out of Cody so she’s gonna keep dipping back into that well until its dried out. Damn shame for Reitman. He’s just coming off a modern day classic with Up In The Air and now he’s going back to tragically ironic hip self awareness land with the Devil. Damn shame.
What happened to the Mad Max movie CT had lined up?
^
In the last decade the business hasn’t exactly been as kind to female performers as it’s been to the male contingent when it comes to actually giving them things consistently worthy to do.
If the studios had actually bothered developing DECENT and not demographically limited tentpoles for actresses to star in as well as actors or if name directors like Spielberg, Scorcese, Nolan, etc or even studios like Pixar had actually considered, shock horror, making a female the lead in one of their pictures for example we wouldn’t be openly asking why, Angelina Jolie aside, actresses of that age seem to be stuck with stale careers after that big Oscar win.
It’s not really the fault of Theron, Berry, Kidman, Julianne Moore and so on and so forth it their careers lack heat in 2010. It’s really up to the studios.
Jason Reitman should direct something edgy like PIERRE, PIERRE, not something light and safe (AGAIN!).
Hey, if Cody (or whatever the hell her name is) can get a project off the ground in this kind of hellish, studio-driven environment, good for her. Milk that Juno cow for all it’s worth, I say. Who cares if the new script sucks? Nothing good gets made anymore so what’s the difference?
Charlize lives in the shadow of Angelina Jolie. I would like Charlize to succeed above Angie but with the decisions she makes she never will.
Charlize change your choices.
Does anyone else suspect Diablo’s reps are writing some of the comments on this page? I’ve never seen so many defensive replies.
Good people behind this project. I’m rooting for it.
To the 2 stupid haters “trying” to bash Theron hahaha, honey Theron was nominated for an oscar for best leading role in “North Country” 2 years after her oscar win in Monster placed her as the only actress of this last decade to be nominated for a leading role in a short time after her oscar win, she was nominated a year after her oscar win in Monster at the Golden Globes and SAGS for ” The life and Death of Peter Sellers” worked with one of the most talented directors From Paul Haggis The Valey of Elah, Arriaga..and had her indie films projected on one of the most presitigious film fesitavle around the world from Cannes to venice to Toronto….had been in a popoular movie recently who raised 624 million world Wide, she is a talented versatile chameleon who took risks and she has “choosen” to make an appearance in The Road because she loved the novel, shows the real actress, no many actresses do that, she is not just another entraiment product sell out, she is not jsut actress she is alos a producer, and your actress Jolie is replacing what Charlize refused she turned down ” The Tourist”, Theron has turned down 3 movies in 2009-2010 The Tourist, the Danish Girl and Atlas Shrugged,( due probably to her persoanl life) she is one of the most in demand actress right now, and had 3 movies coming up The Jason Reitman and the 2 George Miller to name a few…
After reading comments and above listed plot I’m on the fence….
I agree with sarahsmith that alot of Juno’s momentum was gained initially from the Christian Conservative and I don’t think that the those folks will be lining up for this one. As a husband and father the plot makes me vomit thinking about some woman trying to ruin my marriage….
Having said that I think Miss Theron often chooses scripts that portray ‘fringe or demented behavior” which is really good because we need it analyzed and pondered…that’s good art ….and I think that this story may hit something on the head. Why do we go backwards into our past and try to form relationships out of schoolmates ?etc etc…you know what I mean…..
This film could be horrible but I could see Charlize bringing a “pyscho” into it that would be very interesting to watch…. I just thought of the Asian man in Fargo who was after a woman from his past….anyway maybe this has been done I don’t know…..but it does seem Charlize may be a bit lost in her career choices lately. Let’s hope she finds Jesus soon.
All I care about is seeing Charlize on the screen – that’ll be enough to get me in the seat, watching! ?