Cameron Crowe is getting ahead of himself. For a while there, the helmer seemed to only make one movie a decade. By 2000, he had an 80s cult classic featuring an iconic John Cusack pouting while holding a stereo over his head for some girl, a 90s box-office smash featuring a semi-not-creepy Tom Cruise and the award-winning rock n’ roll hit that served as a launching pad for Patrick Fugit’s career. But then something called Vanilla Sky happened, following by another something called Elizabethtown, all in the next five years. And according to Variety, Crowe has no intention on waiting until the 2010s to make another movie.
Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon are set to star in a yet-to-be-named project by the Say Anything…, Jerry Maguire, and Almost Famous helmer, who also penned the screenplay. The pic is to be a “romantic comedy adventure,” but the studio is not releasing the logline. Columbia Pictures will be backing the project, with Scott Rudin and Crowe producing.
Stiller will next appear in Tropic Thunder, a comedy about a war-movie that becomes more of a reality, opening in August, and Night at the Museum 2, currently filming. Stiller is also lending his voice to the Madagascar sequel, Escape 2 Africa. Witherspoon will appear in the comedy Four Christmases, alongside Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen and Sissy Spacek, opening in November.
The Crowe pic begins shooting in January 2009.