The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

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TRIVIA

This has been in development at New Line since 2003, when the studio acquired feature rights to Audrey Niffenegger's novel. "Wife," which hadn't been published when the deal was made, went on to become a bestseller.

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• Project Phase: Completed
• Release Date: 2009-08-14 - Wide Release
• Distributor(s): New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
• Film Genre(s): Drama
• Country: United States
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SYNOPSIS

Based on Audrey Niffenegger's novel, Jeremy Leven's screenplay is a modern version of The Odyssey centers on a man with a time-traveling gene that allows him to appear and reappear to his true love at different points in her life. This is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire (McAdams), an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Niffenegger’s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel’s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant.

RELATED NEWS

  Variety reports that New Line has hired Bruce Joel Rubin to rewrite the script. : 2007-01-03

  The Hollywood Reporter reports that Robert Schwentke is in final talks to direct the project. : 2006-11-01

  Production Weekly reports that Rachel McAdams is attached to star and Stephen Frears in negotiations to direct the project. : 2006-10-20

  The Hollywood Reporter reports that Gus Van Sant is in talks to direct the project. Jeremy Leven adapted the book for the big screen with Richard Brener, Cale Boyter and Magnus Kim are shepherding the project for the studio. : 2005-03-17

 Variety reports that New Line Cinema has bought the novel for Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Jennifer Aniston and Nick Wechsler to produce. : 2003-04-03