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EXCLUSIVE: Summit Entertainment has hired Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan to adapt and direct Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, based on the 1992 John Gray book that highlights the vast differences between men and women, and attempts to bridge the differences. Elfont and Kaplan will turn the title into a romantic comedy, with BermanBraun’s Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman producing.
Gray, whose book has sold over 50 million copies in 45 countries, details the vast gender differences and make suggestions on how to find common ground. Despite that apparent gulf between the sexes, Elfont and Kaplan have done pretty well. They have been creatively collaborating since they met at NYU. They most recently scripted the Amy Adams-Matthew Goode romantic comedy Leap Year, the Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy Made of Honor, and the Ben Affleck-James Gandolfini comedy Surviving Christmas. They’ve directed Can’t Hardly Wait, and Josie and the Pussycats. They are both repped by CAA and Benderspink.
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Yep, because this is EXACTLY what the world has been waiting for. With “Twilight” soon fading past the horizon, Summit decides to head back to 1992? With the brilliant duo from “Leap Year” and “Josie and the Pussycats”? Really? REALLY????
Well, we must at least respect their commitment as artists to uncompromisingly conventional mediocrity.
And give credit to the loyalty of an industry that will continually embrace the untalented with credits over unknowns without.
Surviving Christmas was one of the worst movies ever made. Josie and the Pussycats was just as bad. This will be another shallow insipid rom-com just like “Valentine’s Day” it’ll have a dozen stars in it playing six “strikingly different” couples each of whom will get 15 minutes of screen time and they’ll all learn the truth, that men and women really are very different. The book will be republished with a “soon to be a major motion picture” sticker on it. The book was previously a daytime talk show but I’d really like to see the movie have giant robots fighting each other, make it a summer blockbuster with male and female giant robots stomping all over Los Angeles, don’t limit it to the adult rom-com demo make it into a four quadrant crowd pleaser. Harry and Deb should be able to handle that no problem.
Definitely agree Dreaming. Their ownly semi-good movie was “Can’t Hardly Wait”. I guess because “He’s just not that into me” was a sorta “Hit,” I’m suprised WB didn’t rush to do a sequel like they did with “Valentine’s Day”/”New Year’s Eve”.
Sorry meant Surprised
As for that former monk boy turned author – re-enforcing gender stereotypes is NOT a good thing. Gender is a social construct. I’m waiting for a study that examines the relationship between such harmful re-enforcement and gender disphoria. Of course gender disphoria requires therapy, one has to replace the lost therapy hours ($) since homosexuality is no longer a disorder that needs to be treated.
Now we’ve got all kinds of disphorias and eating disorders to bring in the dough, yay!
Gender reassignment is a growing industry which IMO only speaks of the harm done by the constant reinforcement of GENDER stereotypes as well as QUEER stereotypes – just turn on your TV and weep. I mourn the days and the culture in which twospirits were revered and people had the guts to be truly different. Perhaps one results in the other? Now they seem to be willing to go to any length to conform in order to feel “normal” (as if that was something to aspire to. Sigh.).
You can “bridge the gender gap” if you just shut tf up about the “gap” people like yourself talked into existence to begin with. If treatment for “violence” was as lucrative a business as relationship advice is, more would happen on that front and perhaps an effective treatment could be developed and domestic violence rates would drop. Sadly, it isn’t and they most likely won’t.
Dear God, please make them stop! LEAP YEAR and MADE OF HONOR were both horrible, horrible flicks. Why do we need more from where that crap came from?
/soap box. Glad I got that off my chest. Carry on.
Wasn’t John Gray, Andy Kaufman’s shrink for a while?
It makes perfect sense. Nobody loses their job over greenlighting a film made by these 2. Theres no risk that theyll actually make anything other than an inoffensive little flick.
from the crap makers who brought you crap and the sequel crap-crap. here’s some more crap. actually, I’d rather watch real crap just sitting in the grass somewhere. way more interesting. are we all this stupid? please don’t put your dollars towards this dung.
there was a very good script that was almost greenlit back when the book had a serious zeitgeist factor. why bother now, why even use the title?
I am always wary of writers who have professional photos of themselves, and even more so when they are being “funny” in them or wearing “funny” clothing.
So, even though the majority of rom-coms bomb because they are backward-looking, sexist crap, Summit is going to continue on that merry road with the granddaddy of “men are pigs, women are flowers” books? Seriously? I won’t have trouble skipping this.
those people have one of the worst carreers I have ever seen…who can be proud of any of the things listed in as their previous films?
Has no one noticed their PHOTO?!
These people actually had a conversation about taking the photo, discussed the idea of a “theme”, brainstormed and nixed a few ideas and then actually settled on one at which time they went out and bought IRONIC T-SHIRTS WITH THEIR NAMES ON THEM (one the “negative” of the other) and struck a Bad New Bears pose to evoke youthfulness (read: “We haven’t been out of NYU THAT long. We’re still thE young, cool New Yorkers in town).
Deb’s “I know what I’m doing” gaze into the camera with a just a hint of mystery coupled with Harry’s insouciant, devil-may-care distraction somewhere off to the side indicating a hottie walking by (adorable rascal that he is) strikes just the right combination for what these two want to convey about themselves and their work. And Harry’s black collar picking up Deb’s all black t-shirt is a nice stylistic touch.
I don’t know about their movies, but that shit is funny stuff.
That’s actually a candid photo there’s nothing posed about it. Those shirts are their official uniform it’s what they wear on set when they’re directing it helps the crew know who’s who. The picture was taken on the set of Surviving Christmas and I’m sure Deadline had to pay to use it.
Wait… they have t-shirts so the crew knows who’s who? Two directors. One female. One male. One named Debra. One named Harry. The crew can’t remember what their directors look like? Really? Maybe it’s because they don’t want to know.
Sound’s like something Woody Allen would do. It better be dam funny or it will bomb real fast.
Hey, nice to see Summit hire a couple of writers that are considered unhireable anywhere else!