Screen Junkies » marc klein http://www.screenjunkies.com Movie Reviews & TV Show Reviews Fri, 24 May 2013 23:57:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Will Watching ‘National Treasure’ Director’s Rom-Com Be Like Serving Jury Duty? http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-news/will-watching-national-treasure-directors-rom-com-be-like-serving-jury-duty/ http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-news/will-watching-national-treasure-directors-rom-com-be-like-serving-jury-duty/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:04:40 +0000 Geoffrey Golden http://www.screenjunkies.com/?p=202889 Director Jon Turteltaub (even when I spell it correctly, it looks like I’ve misspelled it) has weird ideas about the government. As the director of National Treasure, he gets a whole bunch of folks to try and steal the Declaration of Independence, because rather than being an important historical document, it’s actually a treasure map. His new romantic comedy pitch, Unreasonable Doubt, is about two trial jurors who fall in love, because rather than jury duty being bored and a time to get in some Nintendo DS, it’s actually a speed dating service.

Unreasonable Doubt, which Turteltaub may direct for Universal, is about what happens when two jurors fall in love in a 12 Angry Men style setting. That sounds a lot like what happens in the phenomenally bad Pauly Shore film Jury Duty. However, Unreasonable Doubt screenwriter Marc Klein wrote one of my least favorite films of all-time, Serendipity, so I’m curious which version of this premise I will hate more. Stay tuned. (Empire Online)

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