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Source: Variety
December 1, 2005



Will Smith and director Jonathan Mostow have committed to Tonight, He Comes -- a development that has Columbia Pictures eyeing a production start in Los Angeles by next summer, reports Variety.

Vince Gilligan rewrote Vincent Ngo's script. Sony Pictures Entertainment's Amy Pascal acquired the project earlier this year in a bidding battle.

Smith will play a disaffected and underappreciated superhero in a mid-life crisis. Akiva Goldsman and Michael Mann will produce with Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment partner, James Lassiter.

Smith just completed starring for Columbia with son Jaden and Thandie Newton in The Pursuit of Happyness, a Gabrielle Muccino-directed drama.

Mostow will push back two projects: Swiss Family Robinson, a film he rewrote with Sam Montgomery for Disney and Mandeville's David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman, and Terminator 4.

 

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Muccino Reteaming with Smith on Tonight

Source: The Hollywood Reporter
April 28, 2006



Helmer Gabriele Muccino is reteaming with Will Smith for Columbia Pictures' action drama Tonight, He Comes, says The Hollywood Reporter. The two recently wrapped the drama The Pursuit of Happyness for the studio.

Writen by Vince Gilligan and Vincent Ngo, "Tonight" centers on a tortured superhero who crash-lands in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and tries to transform himself by romancing an alluring housewife, causing chaos in the city.

Akiva Goldsman and Michael Mann are producing alongside Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment partner, James Lassiter. Jonathan Mostow, who previously was attached to direct the film, and Richard Saperstein are executive producing.

Muccino will begin pre-production on "Tonight" after he finishes post-production on "Happyness," which is scheduled for a December 15 release. The studio is eyeing an early 2007 start date for "Tonight."

 

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Berg in Talks to Direct Tonight, He Comes
Source: TMZ
October 12, 2006


TMZ is reporting that Columbia Pictures' Tonight, He Comes is about to get its fourth director. The site says that Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, The Rundown) is close to making a deal to direct the Will Smith superhero film.

The movie was originally set up at Artisan Entertainment, with Michael Mann directing and producing. When Mann decided to make Miami Vice instead, Artisan dumped the project. Mann and producer Akiva Goldsman took it to Columbia, and promptly hired Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines director Jonathan Mostow and Will Smith. Mostow exited the project due to creative differences, and Smith's most recent director, Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) would attach for several weeks before splitting amicably.

Writen by Vince Gilligan and Vincent Ngo, the film centers on a tortured superhero who crash-lands in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and tries to transform himself by romancing an alluring housewife, causing chaos in the city.

Goldsman and Mann are producing alongside Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment partner, James Lassiter. Mostow and Richard Saperstein are executive producing.

 

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Berg Confirmed for Tonight, He Comes
Source: Variety
October 16, 2006


Variety has confirmed that Columbia Pictures has set Peter Berg to direct Tonight, He Comes, the long-gestating film that will star Will Smith as a superhero in existential crisis.

The film begins shooting in May for a summer 2008 release. Akiva Goldsman, Michael Mann, James Lassiter and Smith produce.

The quartet of producers have supervised myriad Vince Gilligan rewrites that accentuated the superhero's love affair with a married housewife. That has turned the latter role into one coveted by actresses. Charlize Theron is the favorite to take the job.

Berg's name surfaced two weeks ago, but his deal took time as Sony labored to keep a fiscal rein on a film that will have as many visual effects as any superhero movie but a storyline that's far less predictable. Smith's character is a drinking, smoking womanizer whose lifestyle is closer to rock star than do-gooder. The public is as sick of him as he is of them, until he finds a special connection with the married housewife.

The script will be further honed while Will Smith shoots I Am Legend in New York until March. They will jump right into Tonight, He Comes, which will be set in Los Angeles.

 

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Source: Production Weekly
December 20, 2006


Production Weekly says that Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman will star opposite Will Smith in director Peter Berg's superhero drama, Tonight, He Comes, from Columbia Pictures.

Smith plays a down-and-out superhero who has a bad image with the public because he causes a lot of collateral damage while he solves crime, and he's an alcoholic. Bateman plays a corporate public relations consultant, who after being rescued by Smith tries to repay him by revamping his image. But while Bateman is trying to repair Smith's reputation the superhero is secretly romancing Bateman's alluring wife played by Theron.

Shooting will start early May in Los Angeles. The studio is targeting a July 2, 2008 release.

 

It is a pretty cool concept and it'll be interesting to see how they set the tone as well as how they incorporate action into it

 

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Michael Bluth joins the Fresh Prince in TONIGHT, HE COMES!!!


Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my first Jason Bateman related post since I finished the last season of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!!! Of course I loved it and wish I wasn't so Tardy McLatepants when it comes to 99% of TV, so I could have joined the fight to keep it on the air. But I can talk about Bateman's career upswing. I've covered him in MR. MAGORIUM'S WONDER EMPORIUM a few times and now he's just been added to the cast of the best dirty title big studio movie ever, TONIGHT, HE COMES, alongside Will Smith. Charlize Theron is also still in talks with Columbia to co-star, which would mean a mini-Season 3 reunion for her and Bateman.
The flick is about a middle-aged superhero (Smith) who's down on his luck. His fans are disillusioned, his life crumbling. Enter Bateman as a PR man who works to bring Smith's superhero character back to his prime, all the while Smith is putting moves on Bateman's wife.
Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, VERY BAD THINGS, THE RUNDOWN) directs.