Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 4:58 PM by Gene

As Playbill.com has no hot flashes on risible revivals, we turn to the new site The Book Standard, which has launched a weekly feature of movie deals that promises to be risible on its own account. For starters:

Hot off Gap ads and Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker will produce and star in the adaptation of Maria de los Santos’s Love Walked In, to be published by Dutton in December ’05. The story follows a 31-year-old café manager in Philadelphia who becomes attached to the 11-year-old daughter of her new beau. Paramount bought the rights in a pre-empt. Michael London and Parker will co-produce.

Reese Witherspoon is set to produce and star in Universal’s London Is the Best City in America—about a woman who dumps her fiancé and proceeds to work in a bait shop and produce a documentary about the wives of fishermen—to be adapted by Gwyn Lurie from Laura Dave’s novel. Mandalay Pictures and Type A’s Witherspoon & Jennifer Simpson will produce.

Matthew McConaughey and Penélope Cruz lead Ascendant Pictures’ adaptation of Joe Coomer’s novel The Loop, in which lonely highway patrolman McConaughey is inspired to search for his long-lost parents after meeting sexy librarian Cruz. (Cruz has also played a sexy nun, in Almodóvar’s 2002 All About My Mother.) S.R. Bindler will write and direct, and will be joined by producers McConaughey, Mark Gustawes, Bruce Heller, David Koplan, Gus Gustawes and Chris Roberts.

In short: ANOTHER argument for aliteracy.