Nicole Kidman will star in and produce an adaptation of The Silent Wife, based on the novel by A.S.A. Harrison, Deadline.com reported. Mazur/Kaplan partners Paula Mazur and Mitchell Kaplan (owner of Books & Books) have teamed with Kidman and Per Saari's Blossom Films to option the psychological thriller and produce. Deadline.com added that the "book-centric" Mazur/Kaplan made Nim's Island, are currently developing The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Society and are adapting Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) is in talks to direct The Mountain Between Us, based on the novel by Charles Martin, for Fox and Chernin Entertainment. Deadline.com reported that the project, "originally adapted by J. Mills Goodloe, had Scott Frank come aboard and I hear they are trying to get that busy writer for the next pass."
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Alexander Payne (Sideways) is teaming with Fox Searchlight and Conde Nast Entertainment on The Judge's Will, a film adaptation of the late Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's final published story, which appeared in the New Yorker last March. Deadline.com reported that CNE will produce with Ad Hominem Enterprises, the company that Payne runs with Jim Burke and Jim Taylor.
