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17Sep2008
Nicole Kidman Discovers 'Eighth Wonder'
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 2:32AM
Less than a week after being named
the biggest
siphon in Hollywood, sucking movies dry
with her expensive contracts,
Nicole Kidman has...signed another contract.
She'll star in and co-produce a new action-adventure movie at Fox called The
Eighth Wonder.
Despite her recent well-publicized box office slump, Fox
is releasing Kidman's new movie with
Baz Luhrman, and from what I gather, the studio
is very excited about
Australia. Perhaps they sense a change in her
fortunes.
She'll be working from a script by
Simon Kinberg,
and he hasn't written a movie yet with a modest budget, so we should probably
expect the same thing here, especially since
The Hollywood Reporter compares it to the Jason
Bourne of Indiana Jones movies. Kidman and Kinberg have a history; he wrote
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and for a while she was going to star in that. After she
moved on because of scheduling conflicts, Nic and Simon put together plans to
make a spy movie. That one never boiled. So now for their next trick: The Eighth
Wonder.
Kinberg's a very busy guy these days, having just
punched up the script to the new Night at the Museum sequel. He also
adapted the script for Sherlock Holmes, and he's working on a new version
of Robert Ludlum's The Osterman Weekend, which would be a valuable remake
because they didn't quite get it right the first time.
As for Kidman, I think she's gotten a raw deal in some
respects. She's always gone after very experimental indie projects, like
Birth and Dogville. But her blockbusters have been downright lousy
since she won an Oscar - Stepford Wives, Bewitched, and The Invasion.
If Australia redeems her, then a big, splashy, popcorn movie could be just the
ticket to help her career fully rebound.

Colin Boyd |
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