Given all the projects he’s attached to and scripts he has on the go, Cameron Crowe is well and truly back in action. Just last month, word arrived that Emma Stone was set to star in a new romantic comedy for the writer-director and now he’s got two more potential projects in the works.
One of the two, however, is something he's been working on for a whille. According to The Wrap, Crowe is moving ahead with his adaptation of two memoirs – he's planning to turn David Sheff’s bestseller Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and son Nick Sheff’s related tome Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines into one tale of father-son struggle.
The project originated at Paramount and Brad Pitt’s Plan B company, which teamed up to buy the rights to both books back in 2008. While Crowe was attached from the beginning, the project hit a wall when Sheff didn’t like the way he was portrayed. Steven Zaillian was brought on to do a pass, but that also appears to have vanished. Now Paramount is no longer involved, but Plan B seems to still be on board, with the chance that it could follow the new comedy and become possibly the darkest film Crowe has directed.
That’s not all: Crowe’s also being wooed to adapt Michael Chabon’s upcoming book, Telegraph Avenue, for US cable channel HBO. Taking place in the summer of 2004, the story follows friends Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe who own Brokeland Records, a record shop threatened by a new megastore opening down the street. Though Crowe is not yet aboard, it certainly sounds like the sort of project he could make beautiful music with.