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Admittedly, I'm pretending I haven't seen the film's trailer and pretending that I know nothing about Columbia Pictures snubbing the 2010 calendar or canceling the pegged January date. Based on the Black List script, lensed by the great Harris Savides and directed by Gus Van Sant (the Good Will Hunting not the Paranoid Park kind).

It may be a studio project, but my feeling is this may be closer to his indie work, than Finding Forrester. He employs Harris Savides for his specialty theme: coming-of-age films. I'll also be curious about the new batch of actors whose lineage is tied to seminal American actors (Dennis Hooper and Sissy Spacek).

I've witnessed tales of scripts making it up the ladder in more obscure ways, but if this does get a greenlight you'll be sure that this will be mentioned in the press notes. The Hollywood Reports reports that Jason Lew's first screenplay made it into the hands of the great Gus Van Sant via actress Bryce Dallas Howard. If Van Sant is looking on making this studio project his next, then what does this tell us about the status of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and How Starbucks Saved My Life?

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