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Thunder Road To Remake French Pic ‘36th Precinct’; Scott Cooper To Write & Direct

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 3, 2013 @ 1:46pm PDTTags: 36th Precinct, Scott Cooper, Thunder Road
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper has been tapped to rewrite and helm 36th Precinct, the 2004 French movie directed by Olivier Marchal. Thunder Road optioned remake rights from French producer Gaumont, which made the original thriller. That pic starred Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil and centered on rival Paris cops who ruthlessly seek a coveted promotion and blur the lines between the police and the criminals they’re supposed to catch in the process. I’m hearing the updated version will be set in the NYPD’s anti-terrorism unit. Thunder Road boss Basil Iwanyk will produce the new pic along with Cooper, with Marchal and Thunder Road’s Peter Lawson exec producing. Marchal also helmed Gang Story, the 2011 French pic that Thunder Road also is developing, with Safe House helmer Daniel Espinosa attached to direct, Liam Neeson attached to star, and David Scarpa writing the script.

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Warner Bros Buys ‘The Road Home’ For Helmer Scott Cooper And Leonardo DiCaprio

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 9:49am PSTTags: Appian Way, Big Deals Film, Leonardo DiCaprio, Scott Cooper, The Road Home, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the upcoming Michael Armour novel The Road Home, and Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper has signed on the write the script, direct and produce with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran’s Warner Bros-based Appian Way. The drama will be shaped as a potential star vehicle for DiCaprio.

DiCaprio and Davisson Killoran jump right back into the frying pan with Cooper after he directed Out Of The Furnace, the revenge thriller that originally sold as a Brad Ingelsby spec that DiCaprio intended to star in for Ridley Scott. The film was rewritten by Cooper and got made by Relativity Media with Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson and Zoe Saldana starring, a co-production between Appian Way and Scott Free.

The Road Home is a Depression-era drama that focuses on Creek, a war-scarred rancher on the Central California coast who finds himself entangled in scandal when he is asked to investigate the brutal murder of a local man, a case that local police have swept under the rug.

Armour, by the way, was repped in the deal by Jeff Berg’s Resolution, the first deal for the new agency we have notched at Deadline.
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Willem Dafoe Joins ‘Out Of The Furnace’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 5:13pm PDTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Relativity, Scott Cooper

Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of Relativity Media and Red Granite’s thriller currently entitled Out Of The Furnace. Dafoe joins previously announced cast members Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Woody Harrelson and Forest Whitaker. … Read More »

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Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson Join ‘Out Of The Furnace’ Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: Christian Bale, Forest Whitaker, Relativity Media, Scott Cooper, Woody Harrelson

The Last King of Scotland Oscar winner and Hunger Games star will round out Scott Cooper’s Out of The Furnace, Relativity announced today. Forest Whitaker, as previously reported by Deadline, and Woody Harrelson join Christian Bale, … Read More »

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Casey Affleck Frontrunner to Join Revenge Thriller ‘Out Of The Furnace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 5, 2012 @ 5:06pm PSTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Scott Cooper
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Affleck is poised to join the cast of Out of the Furnace, the Scott Cooper-directed revenge thriller that Relativity Media will put into production later this year with Christian Bale starring. The script, which originated as a Brad … Read More »

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‘Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper And Searchlight Reteam On ‘Rockefeller’ Conman Saga

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 21, 2011 @ 8:39am PDTTags: Fox Searchlight, Scott Cooper
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Heart writer-director Scott Cooper is getting back in business with Fox Searchlight. He’s making a deal to direct and possibly adapt The Man In The Rockefeller Suit, based on Mark Seal’s nonfiction book about a German-born conman who … Read More »

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‘Crazy Heart’ Helmer Scott Cooper To CAA

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday September 20, 2011 @ 6:06pm PDTTags: CAA, Jeff Bridges, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ridley Scott, Scott Cooper
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CAA just signed Scott Cooper, who made his directorial debut with Crazy Heart, the film that won Jeff Bridges the Oscar for Best Actor. Cooper, who started an an actor before making the transition to filmmaker with his … Read More »

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‘Crazy Heart’s Scott Cooper Takes On ‘The Low Dweller’ For Relativity Media

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 11, 2011 @ 3:28pm PDTTags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Movie Deals, Movies, Relativity Media, Ridley Scott, Scott Cooper
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: Relativity Media has confirmed the deal, and they’ve retitled the script Out of the Furnace.

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media is making a deal with Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper to rewrite and direct The Low Dweller, one … Read More »

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Universal Buys Laura Hillenbrand WWII Bestseller ‘Unbroken’ For Francis Lawrence

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 4, 2011 @ 9:27am PSTTags: Book-to-Movie, CAA, Francis Lawrence, Laura Hillenbrand, Louis Zamperini, Movies, Scott Cooper, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to Laura Hillenbrand’s bestselling new book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The studio is in talks with Francis Lawrence to direct, and wants Crazy Heart helmer Scott … Read More »

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‘Brokeback’ Duo Larry McMurtry And Diana Ossana Script Pair of Period Westerns

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday December 14, 2010 @ 4:26pm PSTTags: Book-to-Movie, Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry, Movies, Ridley Scott, Scott Cooper
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are in the midst of two major period Western feature films projects. They are scripting The Color of Lightning for Ridley Scott to direct at 20th Century Fox, and they … Read More »

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‘Crazy Heart’ Helmer Scott Cooper In Remake Of Thriller ‘Carancho’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 15, 2010 @ 3:48pm PSTTags: Movies, Oscar Best Foreign Language Film Category, Scott Cooper, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Remake rights are being shopped this week for Carancho, the Pablo Trapero-directed thriller which Argentina has submitted for the Best Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards. Crazy Heart helmer Scott Cooper is attached to direct the remake, from … Read More »

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