Romance Dave Bautista to star in Romantic Comedy ‘The Romantic’

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Paramount Lands Rom-Com Spec ‘The Romantic’ From Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont; Dave Bautista Aboard To Star

Dave Bautista has attached to star in 'The Romantic,' a rom-com in development at Paramount Pictures.

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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired rights to The Romantic, a romantic comedy spec from Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, with Dave Bautista attaching to star. Maximum Effort will produce under its first-look deal with the studio, alongside Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment.

The film tells the story of bestselling romance author Francine London, who has a secret: she’s actually a six-foot-four mountain of a man named Ed Schwenke. When Ed’s identity comes under scrutiny, he hires a wildcard of a woman to pose as Francine at a romance fiction convention, while evading a cynical female journalist, who hates romance even more than she hates liars. No director is attached at present.