Variety reports that studios that are trying to fill 2010 release slates are weighing spec packages that would give them either an Adam McKay-directed action comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, or a drama that will reunite Matt Damon with his
The Bourne Ultimatum scribe George Nolfi.
Damon is at the center of
The Adjustment Bureau, a contemporary science fiction love story that was shopped to studios by Media Rights Capital.
Nolfi wrote a script that is loosely based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and he will make his directing debut on the film, which will begin production by late summer.
Nolfi scripted the Damon-starrer
Ocean's Twelve, but they developed a closer relationship when he scripted
The Bourne Ultimatum. He is also writing the fourth installment of the Bourne franchise for Universal.
Separately, several studios were bidding Tuesday on
B Team, a McKay-directed action comedy that casts Ferrell and Wahlberg as cops, with Chris Henchy writing the script.
Henchy co-wrote the upcoming Ferrell-starrer
Land of the Lost, and he is co-executive producer of
Entourage, the HBO show on which Wahlberg is executive producer.
Even though
B Team and
The Adjustment Bureau come with pricey packages -- buyers essentially commit to make the movies -- both pictures are expected to have studio homes before the week is over.
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Emily Blunt will star opposite Matt Damon in The Adjustment Bureau, a sci-fi love story George Nolfi is directing Universal and Media Rights Capital.
