Pfeiffer
HOLLYWOOD -- For the first time, Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley will collaborate on-screen.
Spouses are teaming up on "Chasing Montana," a drama penned by Kelley set up at Focus Features in which Pfeiffer would topline.
Danish helmer Susanne Bier, whose Dogma film "Open Hearts" won the international critics award at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, will helm the drama.
"Montana" was penned specifically for his wife Pfeiffer, and follows a father (uncast) and his daughter (Pfeiffer) -- both doctors -- whose bucolic Montana vacation becomes a poignant and at times amusing voyage of self discovery.
Pic is being produced by "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" exec producer David L. Bushell, and is expected to lens in the fall.
Focus Features exec VP of development and production Joe Pichirallo will supervise the pic's development.
Pfeiffer is also currently attached to star in "She's Gone" for Disney-based production shingle Beacon.
That script, penned by Beacon chairman and CEO Armyan Bernstein, is a sophisticated romantic comedy about a couple who have been married since they were high school sweethearts -- and what happens when the husband's ingenious plan to ditch his wife goes awry.
"Gone" is being produced by Bernstein and financed through Beacon's five-year co-financing, production and distribution deal with Disney.
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