
Akiva Goldsman’s Directorial Debut ‘Winter’s Tale’ Moving Forward with Reduced Budget, Will Smith and Russell Crowe in Talks
Posted on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 by Angie Han
Though Akiva Goldsman has been behind some of Hollywood’s biggest hits of the ’90s and ’00s as a screenwriter and a producer, it’s only now that he’s gearing up to make his directorial debut. For the past few years, he’s been trying to get together an adaptation of Mark Helprin‘s magical realism novel Winter’s Tale, and he finally got the green light from Warner Bros. last year. Now the project is taking another big step forward, as two huge names enter talks to star: Russell Crowe and Will Smith. More after the jump.