Anne Hathaway has a new man in her life -- well, not exactly what you’re thinking.
The young starlet who recently split from her boyfriend of four years has signed up to star in Warner Bros.’ romantic comedy The Fiance.
We just saw her in Rachel Getting Married, Bride Wars hits theaters in January 2009, and now this? Is Miss Hathaway trying to tell us something thru her films?
Hathaway will play a woman who cancels wedding plans and breaks up with her seemingly perfect fiance so she can try to figure out who she really is, says Variety. Her meddling parents try to patch things up between the pair, making it impossible for her to move on.
It’s not quite art imitating life but there are some similarities to Hathaway’s public break up minus the seemingly perfect boyfriend being convicted of fraud.
Burr Steers is set to direct with production planned to start in March. The original script came from Dyanne Stempel and Jennifer Robinson with a rewrite done by Etan Cohen (yes, Etan … this is not a typo for
Ethan Coen).
In other top female casting news,
Naomi Watts is in negotiations to star in My Name Is Jody Williams, a Universal drama that
Audrey Wells is attached to direct, reports WireTap’s Nancy Tartaglione-Vialatte.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that the screenplay tells the true story of Jody Williams, a strong-willed teacher working for a temporary employment agency who left her life in Washington to pursue an unlikely career in global activism.
Almost a decade and a half later, Williams was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for leading an international campaign to eradicate land mines.
Williams famously called President Bill Clinton a "weenie" for not signing the land mine ban.
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