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Tuesday
Aug172010

J.J. Abrams and Jack Bender play Seven Minutes in Heaven

We all love JJ Abrams except those with no taste.....only kidding....well he's involved in yet another project, again as producer with LOST alumni Jack Bender on directing duties.

Heat vision got the lowdown on this one with a lot of help from The Wrap, who "wrapped" their hands around an email from Paramount revealing their slate.

The story, which has a high concept hook based around a kissing game, no doubt the two canoodling in the closet will be aesthetically pleasing and 25 playing sixteen.

J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot shingle are developing a thriller based on the teenage makeout game of snogging in the closet.

Called “7 Minutes in Heaven,” the original idea comes from Jack Bender, who most recently directed the final episode of ABC’s “Lost.” A longtime Bad Robot cohort, Bender signed a feature deal with the company in early June, and the “Heaven” project is his to helm. “Heaven” is being developed internally, but it likely will be set up at Paramount, the studio home of Bad Robot. 

While plot details are being suppressed, it is known to focus on two teens who go into a closet as part of the titular game and find all their friends dead when they come back out.

Bad Robot is looking for a writer to tackle the idea.

This all sounds like it will end up with Robert Pattinson and Amber Heard being chased around for 90 minutes by a mystery killer, but given the talent involved I'm mildly interested. I just hope it doesn't delay progress on the new Jack Ryan movie "Moscow" which Bender is set to direct.

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