One of Hollywood’s hottest screenwriters — or at least one that became white hot in the last few weeks — Aline Brosh McKenna (“The Devil Wears Prada”), has just scored another plum gig. She’s writing a romantic comedy for burgeoning genre-geek super producers/screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (writers behind the “Transformers” series for Michael Bay, the “Star Trek” reboot for J.J. Abrams and the producers/writers of Jon Favreau’s upcoming “Cowboys & Aliens”)
A currently untitled romantic dramedy that Kurtzman and Orci will produce at Dreamworks under their Paper Products shingle, the film is based on McKenna’s original script, following the “on-off love affairs and friendships among a close circle of friends over two decades.” Variety‘s description kind of sounds like an extended version of “The Big Chill” only set over decades and not a reunion-like weekend, or perhaps a wider-scoped version of Lone Scherfig’s currently-filming “One Day.”
With live-action Disney properties being all the studio rage (thanks to the billion-topping “Alice In Wonderland”), McKenna recently capitalized on the craze, presciently pitching a “Cinderella” story that fetched her over seven figures from the Mickey Mouse studio (of course). Cameron Crowe is directing her script of “We Bought A Zoo,” and while he’s rewriting it, she’ll likely get the top billing and screenplay credit (she also has an untitled J.J. Abrams project in the works set up under his Bad Robot shingle).
McKenna also penned “27 Dresses,” for her sins, has several upcoming projects and wrote the upcoming “Morning Glory,” starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and Patrick Wilson (also from the Bad Robot stable), which hits theaters in November.