Reitman, Cody and Theron team on Young Adult
Mon, August 2, 2010 
Juno was one of my favourite movies of 2007, it saw Diablo Cody go from hot stripper to hot Hollywood screenwriter and saw Jason Reitman break out as a director to watch after his excellent debut "Thank You for Smoking." Now TOLDJA! brings news that the two are reuniting for Cody's new script "Young Adult" and the stunning Charlize Theron is coming along with them.
The Juno team of director Jason Reitman, screenwriter Diablo Cody, Mandate Pictures and the production company Mr. Mudd are teaming again on Young Adult. Charlize Theron is aboard to play a ghostwriter of young adult novels who realizes she has no identity with her pseudonym and plots to reclaim her identity. Her campaign involves going back and rekindling a relationship with her high school boyfriend--who's freshly married, is a new father, and wants no part of her.
While she works on her plan, the ghostwriter reengages with high school acquaintances and their experiences in trying to carry out all those high school hopes and dreams that often get crushed by the realities of life. The film's being produced by Cody, Mason Novick, Lianne Halfon and Russell Smith of John Malkovich's Mr. Mudd banner. Mandate's Nathan Kahane and Malkovich are exec producers. I'm told that Reitman has brought in Indian Paintbrush's Steven Rales to possibly co-finance with Mandate and he will be an exec producer as well. Several studios are interested in making the picture, but it hasn't crystallized yet. The plan is to get the film into production in New York on November 10 if all works out, with Reitman directing. Cody won an Oscar for her Juno script and Reitman was also nominated.
The outline for the movie is not exactly eye catchingly exciting but with Reitman at the helm my interest is piqued, I've enjoyed each of his three movies and for me each has represented a step up from him in his craft. For Cody after the misstep that was "Jennifers Body" this seems like a safe return for her, and it's easily the most intriguing role Theron has taken on in some time.
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