Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
I am literally dancing around my room, overjoyed. Michael Fleming, god bless you for bringing me the news that Joel and Ethan Coen are reteaming with George Clooney on the Universal film INTOLERABLE CRUELTY.
I love this script. It’s a dark twist on the romantic comedy genre about a divorce lawyer. Not just any divorce lawyer, mind you. This is the guy that men turn to when they MUST keep their money, when they refuse to give up even a penny to THAT BITCH they are divorcing. He’s a shark. He always makes his clients get a pre-nup signed before marriage, and his pre-nup is iron clad. No woman has ever beaten it.
After a particularly brutal divorce, a woman decides to get revenge. She targets the lawyer and decides she is going to (A) make him fall in love with her, (B) marry him without the pre-nup in place, and (C) ruin the sonofabitch and take everything he has.
With Clooney onboard and Julia Roberts rumored (she almost made this film with Richard Gere at one point before they decided on the more mild-mannered RUNAWAY BRIDE instead), this could be wicked, evil fun. I think I have to go dig my copy of the script out so I can re-read the thing. The Coen Bros. draft has always been something I dearly loved.
I’m just sorry TO THE WHITE SEA had to die in order for this to come together. In a perfect world, we’d see both.
"Moriarty" out.
