While his last venture for Disney, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, didn’t earn quite get to National Treasure levels at the box office, it still scooped in $215 million around the world. Which means Jon Turteltaub isn’t locked in Director Jail just yet: Universal has bought the romantic comedy script pitch Unreasonable Doubt and Turteltaub is negotiating to direct.
A rom-com riff that takes the jury room tensions best fictionalised in legal evergreen** 12 Angry Men**, Doubt follows what happens when two jurors fall in love during a case.
Marc Klein, who wrote the Doubt script, has the likes of Serendipity and A Good Year on his CV, and is currently adapting hit musical In the Heights for the big screen, along with TMI, a rom-com about best pals who sleep together but feel their relationship is doomed because they already know way too much about each other. Oh, and Klein also has a history with Turteltaub – he was his assistant on When You Were Sleeping way back in 1995.
Turteltaub still has the possibility of National Treasure 3 on his schedule, though that one is still in development, along with a film about the founding of Greenpeace.