'Juno' team reunites for new Cody project (SCR, BIZ)
By Nancy Tartaglione
The team behind "Juno" is reuniting for "Young Adult." Mandate Pictures is back in business with Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody having optioned rights to the comedy. According to reports, the project will be fast-tracked.
Cody will produce with her Oscar nominated Juno producers Mason Novick, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith of Mr. Mudd Productions.
No plot details were forthcoming save for the fact that it is a "comedy with a strong dramatic backbone," according to Screen.
The Risky Business blog added that the storyline involves a thirtysomething, divorced, young-adult fiction writer in Minneapolis who returns to her hometown to chase the ex-boyfriend, who's now married with a kid, that got away.
Mandate president Nathan Kahane and Mr. Mudd's John Malkovich will serve as executive producers.
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