“Story focuses on an idealistic Miami reporter who returns to his Florida hometown to investigate the possibly unlawful imprisonment of a death-row inmate.
Production of ”Paperboy” is scheduled for late summer, probably in Louisiana. “
Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Tobey Maguire to join Lee Daniels in New Orleans for ‘Paperboy
Director Lee Daniels’ followup to his Oscar-nominated 2009 drama “Precious” was supposed to be the civil-rights drama “Selma,” set in Alabama but shot in New Orleans. With financing still apparently not solidified, however, Daniels is moving on from “Selma” for the time being — but not from New Orleans.
The Oscar-nominated director’s next project will be the big-screen adaptation of the dark 1995 crime novel “The Paperboy,” a Florida-set story about a newspaper reporter on a life-or-death hunt for answers.
The production is set to arrive in town over the next couple of weeks in preparation for a July shoot.
The cast to this point includes Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Sofia Vergara and Zac Efron.
Written by Pete Dexter — author of the award-winning “Paris Trout,” which was turned into a film in 1991 — “The Paperboy” focuses on the son of the publisher of a small-town newspaper who gives up his job as a newspaper deliverer to help his hot-shot reporter brother investigate the murder of a death row inmate. Complications ensue, naturally.
Nu Image / Millennium Films (“The Expendables,” “The Mechanic,” “Drive Angry 3D”) is producing. No release date has been announced.
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