Drama pic Collateral Beauty is having trouble holding on to people both in front of and behind the camera. The latest departure is Me And Earl And The Dying Girl director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, who has left the film thanks to unspecified creative differences.
It’s a surprise, as Gomez-Rejon had been steering the film through cast changes, including Hugh Jackman leaving for scheduling reasons, Rooney Mara following him and then Will Smith stepping into the lead. The director’s decision leaves the film a little up in the air, though Smith is still attached.
The film, written by Allan Loeb, follows a New York advertising executive (Smith, assuming he stays aboard through this latest change) who goes through a personal tragedy. His colleagues try an unconventional plan to break him out of the depression that follows.
Smith is also producing the film via his Overbook Entertainment company, and New Line has nabbed the rights to distribute it, assuming everything comes together. Gomez-Rejon appears to be focusing on another project, electricity power battle pic The Current War, which has Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch in talks to lead.
from Empire News
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