Harrison Ford in J.J. Abrams comedy
Harrison Ford has told MTV that he is returning to the comedy genre. His sights are firmly set on a movie being produced by J.J. Abrams from the writer of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and 27 DRESSES and that could co-star Reese Witherspoon. The movie is MORNING GLORY and was first announced last year under the helm of Roger Michell (NOTTING HILL). Take your mind back over a year where we wrote...
Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada) is penning the screenplay, which centers on a struggling female news producer and the iconic, temperamental anchorman she recruits to revive a failing network morning show. Bad Robots J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk are producing. Sherryl Clark exec produces.Reese Witherspoon then found herself attached as the female news producer, presumably Ford will play the anchorman. You have to go all the way back to SABRINA in 1995 to find Ford's last romantic comedy. He's got a great charm of course and a lot of the last INDIANA JONES movie saw him go through much of the rom-com routine. I would love to see him do this movie but then again, I think I would probably say that about any Harrison Ford potential project at this stage. If there's one positive from INDY IV, it's that it's got Ford noticed and working again in films we might actually be interested in seeing!