New Line eyes Pacino
Companies pull off 'Road' to the Hollywood Project
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Niccol, the New Zealand native who wrote Par’s “The Truman Show” and directed his script “Gattaca” for Jersey and Columbia, had been expected to next helm “River Road,” a film he wrote for Jersey Films about a man who moves into a fictitious border town. New Line bought the script in a $3 million deal that covered Niccol’s writing, directing and producing fees.
Instead, New Line and Jersey are moving at full speed with a new Niccol script that’s being called the Hollywood Project. Financial deals of the new project are unknown and details of the script are scant. If talks with Pacino lead to a deal, the “Insider” star would play a down-and-out producer who attempts to make it big in Hollywood.
Pic will be produced by Jersey partners Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, with Niccol likely serving in a producing capacity.
Pacino and Niccol are repped by CAA.
