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14Jul2009

Emily Blunt Joins Matt Damon's 'Adjustment Bureau'

DateTuesday, July 14, 2009 at 3:26PM
Back in February, a new Matt Damon project to be written and directed by Bourne Ultimatum co-writer George Nolfi made the rounds, eventually winding up at Universal, Damon's home for the Jason Bourne trilogy and this fall's Green Zone. Now that project appears to be picking up steam, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Emily Blunt has signed on to join Damon in The Adjustment Bureau, a sci-fi love story that springboards from a Philip K. Dick short...and yes, I just wrote "Dick short." Sorry about that. While people will lament that Hollywood has again exhumed an old idea, Philip K. Dick's stories translate better as films in the past 25 years than they did when he wrote them. In this case, The Adjustment Team was written in 1954.

Damon will play a senator on the rise who falls in love with a ballerina - hold me closer, tiny Emily Blunt! - and then discovers, in essence, that Earth is one giant Truman Show. See? How could you even make that back in the 50s?

Universal gave the go-ahead to a $62 million budget and Damon, one of the best bargains in Hollywood, can now crow about getting 20% of first dollar grosses, which is kind of what it sounds like but not exactly. Either way, it's a great deal for him.

I wondered why Blunt didn't immediately become a more in-demand actress following the Golden Globe for The Devil Wears Prada. Her career definitely didn't lift off, although she's done better work since (as in Sunshine Cleaning) and was set to play the Black Widow in Iron Man 2 until Fox called in a contractual obligation for the upcoming Gulliver's Travels. She also co-stars in The Wolf Man later this year.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , , , , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment1 Comment |

Reader Comments (1)

$62 million is a lot of money for something that sounds this bad AND with a first time director no less. Emily Blount comes off as a chilly Englishwoman to me, although I have to admit I haven't seen her in anything except Devil Wears Prada...

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterLisa

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