[Updated] Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway together on screen again?

Update: TNMC has now removed its post - hmmmm - although (at the moment) TNMC's link to it on the Jake Gyllenhaal discussion board on ProIMDb is still there: 'by deadpooltnmc 3 hours ago (Wed Jun 3 2009 09:46:07) More details here: http://www.tnmc.org/Good-Movies-of-the-Future/brokeback-reunion.html' - Make of that what you will - so what was their reason for publishing and what was their reason for deleting? They had no source and made it up (posting links to their story on the Jake and Anne threads on IMDb) or they published prematurely? Time will tell.

WHAM! I didn't see this coming! And I don't know where it's come from or where it's going - I can find no corrobarative source. TNMC and TNMC alone have announced this today:


'Director Ed Zwick (The Last Samurai, Defiance) has tapped Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway to star in LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS. 20th Century Fox and New Regency are financing the film which will begin shooting on September 21st 2009. Scott Stuber, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Pieter Jan Brugge are producing the film. Charles Randolph wrote the screenplay which has been rewritten by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. I've been able to confirm that this project is the former UNTITLED CHARLES RANDOLPH which was featured in the 2007's Black List. Here's the synopsis:“A humorous expose of the highly competitive and cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals, where salesmen schmooze doctors, nurses and hospitals to get them to use their brand of drugs.”'


The Black List mentioned was a list of the most popular unproduced scripts of 2007. One site elaborated: 'UNTITLED CHARLES RANDOLPH PHARMACEUTICALS SCRIPT by Charles Randolph. “A humorous expose of the highly competitive and cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals, where salesmen schmooze doctors, nurses and hospitals to get them to use their brand of drugs.” AGENT: Creative Artists Agency - Rowena Arguelles, Risa Gertner. MANAGER: Brillstein Entertainment Partners - Margaret Riley. UNAVAILABLE. Universal.'


One blogger at the time had this to say about the script: 'UNTITLED CHARLES RANDOLPH PHARMACEUTICAL SCRIPT was a really fun read. Think Thank You For Smoking with cutthroat pharmaceutical reps. Would love to see this get made with a great cast.'

After some searching around, this description of 'A humorous expose...' was also used to describe a movie that didn't happen for 'Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman', written by pharmaceutical rep Jamie Reidy. Charles Randolph is listed as the producer and writer so this is clearly the same project.


What of the other names? Ed Zwick was the Oscar winning producer for Shakespeare in Love and was the director and writer of the recent Defiance starring Daniel Craig. As for Anne Hathaway... Who wouldn't want to see Jake and Anne act together again? And then there's the date - 21 September. Is this a date to write in the diary? I know that we're all fit to burst waiting for one of Jake's films to actually come out - another potential movie in the pipeline doesn't help. But I like dates, give me a date.


Includes pictures from IHJ.