Nancy Meyers’s highly-anticipated new rom-com AXED by Netflix after ‘director demanded $150million budget but streamer refused to pay more than $130million’
- Film could have been ‘most expensive romantic-comedy of all time’
- Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Michael Fassbender and Owen Wilson were all linked to project
- Oscar-nominated creative was set to write, produce and direct the film
Netflix has shut down a romantic comedy it had in the works with filmmaker Nancy Meyers over concerns about its budget.
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the streamer did not want to surpass a $130 million budget for the movie.
It would have been the first directorial stint for Meyers, 73, since The Intern in 2015, which featured Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway.
The filmmaker was requesting a budget of at least $150 million for the film, which ‘could have made it the most expensive romantic-comedy of all time,’ according to THR.
Among the stars whose names had been mentioned as possible stars for the Netflix film include Scarlett Johansson, Penélope Cruz, Michael Fassbender and Owen Wilson.
The latest: Netflix has shut down a romantic comedy it had in the works with filmmaker Nancy Meyers, 73, over concerns about its budget. Meyers was pictured in 2017 in London
Meyers was set to write, produce and direct the motion picture, which had been referred to as Paris Paramount (though THR said it was unclear if that was a working title for the film).
The project was announced last year, and the casting process had begun, according to the outlet.
The storyline of the movie would have focused on a writer-director who gets into a romance with a producer.
The couple makes a series of hits before going separate ways both personally and professionally. They eventually reunite for a high-profile project involving ‘high stakes and volatile stars’ the outlet reported.
The storyline had been loosely based on Meyers’ experiences, the outlet reported.
She was in a long relationship with Charles Shyer, collaborating on movies including 1980’s Private Benjamin – for which Meyers was previously nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar – as well as 1987’s Baby Boom, 1991’s Father of the Bride and The Parent Trap in 1998, which launched Lindsay’s Lohan career.
The filmmaker’s other directorial credits include 2009’s It’s Complicated, 2003’s Something’s Gotta Give, 2000’s What Women Want.
Meyers has received higher budgets in her career for her top-scale production design and big name headliners.
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the streamer did not want to surpass a $130 million budget for the movie
It would have been the first directorial stint for Meyers, 73, since The Intern in 2015, which featured Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway
Meyers and Diane Keaton were pictured at the 2020 Writers Guild Award in Beverly Hills, California
