Reese Witherspoon cast in remake of “Midnight”
Universal Pictures will develop a remake of the 1939 comedy “Midnight” as a star vehicle for Reese Witherspoon scripted by Michael Arndt, who won the Oscar for “Little Miss Sunshine.”
Arndt hatched the idea, which prompted the producers to team.
“Midnight” has “long been one of my favorite films, and it is easily one of the best comedies of the ’30s,” Arndt said. “Being given the chance to update the film with Reese in the lead is simply a dream come true.”
In the original, Claudette Colbert starred as a destitute young woman in Paris who becomes a pawn when a wealthy man tries to get rid of the gigolo wooing his wife. John Barrymore also starred in the film that was directed by Mitchell Leisen and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.
The original was released by Paramount but became U property when the studio bought the pre-1948 Par library.
Project will not be next for Witherspoon, who’s deciding between several films for her next slot.
UPDATE: Did you see these pics of Reese & Jake sneaking around?
June 1st, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Showgirl Eve, stranded in Paris without a sou, befriends taxi driver Tibor Czerny, then gives him the slip to crash a party. There she meets Helene Flammarion and her gigolo Picot, who’s attracted to Eve. Helene’s scheming husband Georges enlists Eve’s aid in taking Picot away from his wife. It works well… at first. Meanwhile, lovestruck Tibor searches for Eve. But then he learns she’s calling herself Baroness Czerny!