Posted: Sun., Dec. 4, 2005, 9:00pm PT

WB courts 'Marriage' for Moore

Poirier to adapt story

Warner Bros. has optioned the Alice Munro short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage." The studio has set Mark Poirier to adapt it with the intention for Julianne Moore to star.

Pic will be produced by WB-based Dylan Sellers. Moore will exec produce.

Story centers on a nanny hired to care for a teenage girl whose mother has just died. Complications arise when the nanny falls in love with the teen's ailing father.

WB exec veep Kevin McCormick is overseeing the project with Gotham-based exec Alissa Shipp.

Munro most recently published the story collection "Runaway."

Poirier recently adapted Douglas Coupland's novel "All Families Are Psychotic" for DreamWorks.

Moore, who recently starred in "The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," next will be seen in the Joe Roth-directed "Freedomland."


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