'Love' pair ponder 'Bounce'
Roos to helm for Miramax
Affleck is in talks to play a womanizer who gives up his seat on an airplane to a guy who wants badly to get home to his wife. After the plane crashes, the guy who gave up his ticket develops guilt over the other man's death and becomes an alcoholic. One year later, he resolves to check up on the dead man's widow. He slowly falls in love with her, and she eventually reciprocates, unaware that he provided the ticket that led to her husband's early death. Paltrow, coming off her best actress Oscar win for "Shakespeare," would play the widow.
Miramax, which has become a magnet for Oscar-caliber films, was the recipient of a lucky bounce when the project, originally put together at Propaganda Films by its chairman Steve Golin, was put in limbo by Seagram's purchase of Polygram. Golin worked with Miramax chairman Harvey Weinstein to move it over to Miramax.
Miramax has made a habit of picking winners off the scrap heaps of other studios: Recent best picture Oscar winners "Shakespeare in Love" and "The English Patient" were both discarded by other studios before resurfacing with the Weinstein brothers.
Golin remains in the thick of the project as producer with Michael Besman, the former TriStar exec who met Roos on the set of "Single White Female," which Roos scripted. Besman produced Roos' most recent film, last year's "The Opposite of Sex."
In a departure from what usually happens when actors end a true-life romance and find it uncomfortable to work together, Paltrow and Affleck have remained friendly, with Affleck even making a cameo appearance on "Saturday Night Live" when Paltrow hosted. Their breakup apparently hasn't dampened their enthusiasm for teaming up again onscreen. Both Affleck and Paltrow are repped by CAA.
