Tom Cruise to produce a Cameron Crowe film
Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher are attached to star in Cameron Crowe’s next project, “Elizabethtown,” which is slated to begin production in the first quarter of 2004 in Oregon and Kentucky.
DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures are in final talks to finance the film, which is being produced by Crowe’s Vinyl Films and Tom Cruise’s C/W Prods. Cruise previously starred in Crowe’s “Vanilla Sky” and “Jerry Maguire.
DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures are in final negotiations to jointly finance and co-produce filmmaker Cameron Crowe’s next project, “Elizabethtown,” with Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher attached to star. Production is slated to begin in first-quarter 2004 in Oregon and Kentucky with C/W Prods. producing alongside Crowe’s Vinyl Films. A portion of the filming will also occur in October before resuming in the new year. “Elizabethtown,” which Crowe also wrote, is described as a rich ensemble comedy with two central leads. The project is intended to be a love letter to the resilience of the life force and is a story of an unexpected romance that develops against the backdrop of a Southern patriarch’s hilariously elaborate memorial. Like Crowe’s previous works, music will figure prominently in the film. Paula Wagner, Tom Cruise and Crowe are producing. “Elizabethtown” reunites Crowe with both studios and the production company as DreamWorks released Crowe’s “Almost Famous,” while Paramount and C/W were behind his “Vanilla Sky.”
