There's been talk of Fox remaking their '80s action-adventure classic Romancing the Stone for a few years now, and now the project is reportedly heating up again.
Moviehole claims that the studio is out looking for a director who has a "fresh, exciting take" on how to update Robert Zemeckis' 1984 hit. Robert Luketic, who was attached to direct awhile back, is apparently no longer involved.
Luketic had piqued the interest of Katherine Heigl in the role of romance novelist Joan Wilder, originally played by Kathleen Turner. The duo had worked together on The Ugly Truth. Fox reportedly remains interested in her for the role.
As for the male lead of Jack Colton, played in the original by Michael Douglas, Moviehole says Fox is interested in either Taylor Kitsch (John Carter, Friday Night Lights, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Gerard Butler (Heigl's co-star in The Ugly Truth) for the role.
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