Jason Rietman and Jimm Carrey join forces for: Pierre Pierre!

[Noir]

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/03/05/jason-reitman-and-jim-carrey-team-for-pierre-pierre/

Jason Reitman and Jim Carrey team for Pierre Pierre

Posted on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 7:30 pm by: Peter Sciretta
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Jason Reitman has officially signed on to team up with Jim Carrey on a comedy titled Pierre Pierre (yay!) for Fox Atomic (barf). You first heard about this project on /Film in early December 2007, before Juno became a monster hit at the box office.
Pierre Pierre was ranked the 11th hottest screenplay in Hollywood in the Black Lis, an annual poll of 150 development executives and high-level assistants. Here is what I wrote about the project in December:

“Fox Searchlight paid close to a million dollars upfront for the screenplay by Edwin Cannistraci & Frederick Seton. Described as simular to Bruno/Borat, the story follows a “self-indulgent, lazy, French nihilist who is transporting a stolen Mona Lisa from Paris to London.” Through the journey, “he comes to love his home country again.” Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking) was in talks to direct, with Jim Carrey in talks to star.”
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Well the project is now set up at Fox Atomic (boo!) with a budget pegged at $13 million, and is being prepped as a potential vehicle after the possible actors strike. So this will not be Jason Reitman’s next film, and I’m sure we’ll get an announcement on that soon enough. Reitman is also producing Jennifer’s Body, starring Megan Fox, directed by Karen Kusama, from a script by Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody, also set up at Fox Atomic.
Jason, I loved Thank You For Smoking, and was one of the biggest cheerleaders of Juno in the webspace, but please please, get as far away from Fox Atomic as fast as you can. Go back to Searchlight.

I think it sounds pretty interesting

 

[Artos]

It does indeed sound interesting. I really like Jason Rietman. Met him up at Sundance this year. Really nice guy and a great filmmaker. Looking forward to this.

 

[Catman]

Carrey is in need of a comeback. His last good movie was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 2004!

 

[Hush]

Horton Hears a Who, will be a smash hit. This looks awesome though.

 

[Watson]

Could be cool. Hope Carrey doesn't go too over the top.

Why does the writer have a beef with Fox Atomic?

 

[bullets]

I would like to see Carrey tone it down a bit for this role. I think he can still be funny without the antics.

 

[Noir]

Could be cool. Hope Carrey doesn't go too over the top.

Why does the writer have a beef with Fox Atomic?

Because they normally expect way to much on a small budget.