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EXCLUSIVE: E! has added another project to its scripted development slate: a high-concept romantic drama from feature writer-directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardly Wait). The project, from E! sibling Universal Cable Prods. and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, centers on a young entertainment lawyer who dies but is determined to pursue a romance with a woman who’s still alive — while he exists in limbo in New York City, working for the department that judges the recently departed. Elfont, Deborah Kaplan and Aaron Kaplan (no relation) executive produce.
CAA-repped Kaplan and Elfont have been partners since meeting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. They recently wrote Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus for Lionsgate with Reese Witherspoon attached to star. On the TV side, the duo wrote and executive produced the ABC comedy pilot American Judy starring Judy Greer last season.
Expanding E!’s reality-driven programming slate to scripted series has been a priority for the network’s new regime following the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. The network announced its first scripted development slate in April.
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The joke’s on E! Entertainment lawyers don’t have souls.
Sounds stupid even for E
These two define the Peter Principle. Better t shirts might help.
You know something smells bad when a press release has to go back to the Year 1998 (Can’t Hardly Wait) to find something they can talk about. And then they also talk about future projects. Nothing in between? Where they in a coma or a monastery?
What smells are of course bombs like SURVIVING CHRISTMAS, MADE OF HONOR and LEAP YEAR. That’s the diff between a press release and an article…
I liked this idea when it was called Defending Your Life.
Albert Brooks should sue them but he’s such a nice guy it’s doubtful that he will. Their stupid t-shirts might convince Albert that they deserve to be sued.
No, it’s totally different than defending your life. No Meryl Streep. So it’s different.
The object of the protagonist’s affection wasn’t alive in Defending Your Life
if their shirts said Debbie Harry that would at least be ironic and maybe funny, but if you’re going to use a head shot that makes you look like you’re trying super hard to be cool and edgy at least be nuanced about it. But judging by that log line nuance is not their strong suit.