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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Team Downey have set Bill Dubuque to write a new draft of The Judge, a dramedy that’s planned as a star vehicle for Robert Downey Jr., with David Dobkin directing. The drama centers on a big-city lawyer who returns home after the death of his mother to learn that his estranged father, a judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before. Downey Jr. and Susan Downey are producing with Dobkin. The script was written first by Nick Schenk.
Dubuque takes the job after scripting The Headhunter’s Calling, a drama about a corporate headhunter who struggles to juggle his work and family life, and The Accountant, an action/thriller which was on the 2011 Blacklist. Bill is represented by Paradigm and Zero Gravity Management.
Downey has The Avengers coming and will next make Iron Man 3 and has also been rumored as possible for a team-up with Tim Burton on Pinocchio at Warner Bros, while Dobkin’s Arthur & Lancelot has regained steam at the studio and is casting up.
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The Accountant was the best script I read last year.
that’s good, because The Judge (schenk draft) was the worst script i read last year.
Attention all screenwriters: if you don’t have a script on the Blacklist, you will never get a writing job in Hollywood, period. So just give up.
Sounds like a great Tru TV movie. Can’t wait! Robert is like Johnny. Trying to play a “normal”, grounded character is impossible and a recipe for disaster at the box office. Sad but true.
Not very impressive, yeah sounds like a TV movie. I want more interesting movies from Downey. That Sherlock movie was terrible!
Avengers looks cool though, and Iron Man 3 with Shane Black sounds very interesting too!
This movie is NEVER getting made. No shot. And Dobkin directing Downey in a drama? Sure, that’ll happen in this lifetime. These development deals are so silly.
@lawyer:
You couldnt be more wrong. These actors. RDJ & Depp, after each having strong “comebacks” in the last ten years (which in included Oscar noms for both respectivley) w big blockbusters and smaller films alike, are just getting comfortable. They both are trying to establish their new production companies w quality material, choosing quality over commerical viability.
Once these guys develop their own stuff in house, you’ll soon see RDJ and Depp working w Malick, Nolan, or Fincher. Much like Bale, whose post Batman success has aloud him to work w strictly the best directors around.
@richard313 If I’m understanding your comment, RDJ and Depp needed to do years of “strong comebacks” to be accepted as stars (and bankroll the rest of their lives) and then get recognition for “quality” work in order to start their own production companies and have the status to be able to work with the best directors. Why so convoluted? Is this really the path required, or only RDJ and Depp because they were once irresponsible, etc. and had to redeem their reps?
Malick a good director? Tree of Life was the most pretentious, bloated crap I’ve seen in years.
Sounds like a classy project. Can’t all be tent poles, folks.