Cast set for Schumacher's 'Twelve'

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002134.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

Gaumont, Radar Pictures and Original Media have set a Joel Schumacher-directed adaptation of the Nick McDonell novel "Twelve."

Pic will star Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Ellen Barkin and Kiefer Sutherland.

Production begins April 20 in New York. Jordan Melamed wrote the script.

In 2002, then 17-year-old McDonell wrote a novel that starkly depicted teenage drug use and decadence on the Upper East Side.

Story follows a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer. His lucrative life sours when the dealer's cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and his best friend is arrested for the crime.

Gaumont chairman Sidonie Dumas and CEO Christophe Riandee will produce with Radar CEO Ted Field and Original Media CEO Charlie Corwin. Melamed also will be a producer with Bob Salerno; and Mike Weber will be exec producer.

Radar's Field optioned the novel in 2002, and the project came together with Corwin ("The Squid and the Whale") and Gaumont, which will broker worldwide distribution deals for a film that will be ready for release by winter 2010.

Other than Kiefer Sutherland being in it, it doesn't sound particularly interesting IMO.

 

[Batman713]

Fifty's in this movie. Now it's definitely gonna bomb!

 

[Caped Crusader]

Schumacher = devil

Spoiler

 

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[gwynplaine]

I thought it was the comic book The Twelve, on one hand I'm disappointed but on the other happy that Schumacher is not going near that awesome book.

 

[xwolverine2]

50cent...
..ugh and here i thought shumacher was trying to redeem himself

 

[KenK]

50cent...
..ugh and here i thought shumacher was trying to redeem himself

50's the least of our worries. Twelve is a profoundly awful book. More specifically, it's a mediocre book with a profoundly awful ending.

 

[Caped Crusader]

Guessing he likes 50's nips

 

[Episode29]

Schumacher = devil

 

[xwolverine2]

its a shame..

this guy's got talent wrapped in stupidity

 

[PyroChamber]

For a second I thought this was going to be some remake of 12 Angry Men.