Greg Mottola Directing 'Important Artifacts'
The long-forgotten promise of a movie about a relationship between two hip, affluent, attractive people is finally coming to fruition. Risky Business has news Superbad and Adventureland director Greg Mottola has been signed to write and likely direct Paramount's adaptation of Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry:
“Adventureland” writer-director Greg Mottola has been hired by Paramount to write the screenplay for its adaptation of “Important Artifacts.”Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman quickly became attached to star in what Mottola will spin into a romantic comedy.
An art director at the New York Times, [author] Shapton crafted a fictional estate auction catalog full of personal items and photographs from the four-year romance between a male photographer and a younger food columnist.
I like Mottola, but I'm not sold on this. If I wanted to watch a couple's relationship as told through the items they saved, I'd just record myself weepily sorting through my "old relationship" shoebox. Though, I guess it might be nice to see some relationship "artifacts" that aren't Quiznos receipts...