Steven Spielberg is reteaming with Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody on an untitled comedy for DreamWorks.
The two recently collaborated on the upcoming Showtime series The United States of Tara, about a housewife with multiple personality disorder. The new project is being kept tightly under wraps, and according to Variety, even the dealmakers involved are being kept in the dark. The only thing we know for sure is that the project is based on an original idea by Spielberg.
I’ve read Cody’s Tara pilot, and I think the result will be something very unique. I can’t wait to see what this next project will be about. Anyone have any inside info? Please email us!
July 16th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Cool she’s a good writer!
July 16th, 2008 at 2:52 am
It has either something to do with teen pregnancy, hippie crap found in independent films, and strong conservative values, or whatever else can be passed for a lame excuse of a movie that was Juno!
July 16th, 2008 at 6:22 am
There’s constant buzz about her but nothing ever materializes.
I can’t wait for a future world where every related project has “From the writer that brought you Juno” tagged on its appeal.
July 16th, 2008 at 6:53 am
Boo, she’s awful.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am
nice. Can’t wait.
We still havent seen Jennifer’s Body or the United States of Tara, though, so I’m wondering what this new script will be like.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:42 am
@Greycolumbus:
They’re going ro release Jennifer’s Body as soon as it’s wrapped up. I think it will be her first post-Juno film that we’ll see. I have no idea when Showtime will begin airing “Tara” though.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:32 am
She doesn’t deserve her Oscar.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Man, that woman needs a new haircut. o_O
July 16th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Can’t wait to see what else she has up her sleeve.
I never climbed aboard the Juno/Cody hate train.
July 16th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I don’t mean to be rude but does your definition of ‘unique’ translate to suck. I’d rather watch The Santa Clause or Jungle All The Way than watch that piece of cinematic garbage that Cody wrote.
I would also see Meet Dave over having to watch Juno again. Agents and Producers need to stop looking for writers in strip clubs.
July 16th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
awww, sounds like some poor chap is suffering from extreme jealousy and mysogyny. lmao.
July 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Yeah, is “unique” synonymous with “really badly written” now?
July 16th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
She is a celebrity writer, which is going to cause haters just like celebrity directors (Tarantino) do. The big difference is that she’s a whole lot prettier than Quentin.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
“Very” unique? I wasn’t aware there were degrees of uniqueness.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:59 am
She writes Teenage girls as retarded Teletubbies. She’s an anti-feminist that turns empowered girls into braindead morons spouting hip-hop lingo without any of the credibility to pull it off. Her ‘unique’ colorful dialogue is a bastardization of the English language and she really needs to hand over her academy award to Tony Gilroy, who actually deserved it for Michael Clayton, which was intelligent and thought provoking. Not suburban white girls discussing fooking Dario Argento.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:42 am
lmao. I’m a feminist and I wasn’t aware Diablo Cody is anti-feminist. You know they interviewed her in BUST, one of my fave feminist magazines?
Ohhh crap!!! I gotta cancel my suscription to BUST.
Thank you for informing us, Marty J, how she’s a bad role model for all of us aspiring female screenwriters.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
She sucks. She’s a fad. She’ll be back to riding that pole before you know it.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:48 am
steven, I realy want to make a movie about spies would it be posible I would love it if I could .
September 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Wow, is it just me? A COMEDY about someone with Dissociative Identity Disorder (used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder). Would Spielberg create a comedy about the Holocaust? Since most people with this disorder have been horrifically abused, I don’t see anything comical about it. Sad, sad, sad….the things we laugh at these days. I don’t like laughing at intense suffering, no matter how “funny” it looks from the outside.