Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum are set to star in Michael Sucsy’s love story “The Vow,” to be produced and financed by Spyglass.
The story centers on the real-life story of a newly wed New Mexico couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, whose lives are turned upside down when they are involved in a car accident that leaves the wife with no memory of her new partner. The husband must then attempt to win her heart all over again. The film will presumably be based on the novel written by the two survivors with author John Perry. Here’s a synopsis of the story, which featured heavily in the media at the time, courtesy of Amazon:
Life as Kim and Krickitt Carpenter knew it was shattered beyond recognition on November 24, 1993, two months after their marriage, when their Ford Escort was hit from behind by a fast-moving truck. A massive head injury left Krickitt in a coma for weeks. When she finally emerged from the coma, she recognized her parents and everyone else-but she didn’t know Kim. She had no idea who he was. The “Krickitt” Kim had married essentially died in the accident. The Vow is the true tale of the reconstruction of two lives and a marriage after an event so shattering that most others would have parted ways long ago. Though it was not easy, and it tested every fiber of who they were, Kim and Krickitt fell in love all over again.
The story is intriguing and the prospect of it being explored by the “Grey Gardens” director with these two thespians in the lead roles makes for an exciting prospect. Suscy is rewriting the script by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein with the project having already gone through nearly ten years of development with Julia Roberts apparently attached at one stage.
No word on when production on “The Vow” could begin but with McAdams due to shoot Woody Allen’s “Midnight In Paris” and Terrence Malick’s untitled romantic drama later this year, early 2011 is probably the quickest it could front cameras. Sucsy also apparently has musical W.I.P. film “The Goree Girls” starring Jennifer Aniston, Ellen Pompeo and Sandra Oh lined to up shoot this year though nothing has been heard on the front for quite some time.
Tatum, meanwhile, is shooting on Ron Howard’s “Cheaters” and also has Steven Soderbergh’s “Haywire,” Dito Montiel’s “Son Of No One” and Kevin MacDonald’s “The Eagle Of The Ninth in the can; all of which are slated for release next year. He was also just revealed to be apart of the now-defunct Nicolas Winding Refn project “The Dying Of The Light” starring Harrison Ford and is attached to star as a heroin addict in an adaptation of Richie Farrell’s addiction-memoirs “What’s Left Of Us.”
sounds like a TV movie.