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10-18-2001, 12:37 PM
De Niro returns for more analysis
Reuters
Oct 18 2001 1:09AM
NEW YORK (Variety) - Robert De Niro has switched mental afflictions.
The actor has dropped plans to produce and play a phobic therapist in "Scared Guys" for director Dean Parisot ("Galaxy Quest"). Instead, he'll reprise his role as an anxiety-ridden mobster treated by a reluctant shrink in "Analyze That," a sequel to the hit 1999 comedy "Analyze This."
The Peter Steinfeld-penned Warner Bros. picture is expected to begin production in February, and De Niro will be getting his career-best payday, near $20 million, sources said. Sources said De Niro received $17.5 million for WB's upcoming "Showtime," co-starring Eddie Murphy.
De Niro, whose salary has soared since he broadened his dramatic resume and made the hit comedies "Analyze This" and last year's "Meet the Parents," had been expected to play against his tough-guy type as a man afraid of everything in "Scared." De Niro and his Tribeca partner Jane Rosenthal joined John Baldecchi in producing the Columbia comedy, with De Niro to have played a phobic therapist who pries himself from the apartment for the first time in years.
While there was talk of pairing him with such actors as Adam Sandler and James Gandolfini in the role of an equally phobic sibling, De Niro dropped the project abruptly, partly because he wasn't crazy about a rewrite, and also because Columbia wasn't crazy about his desire to push back the comedy while he first did "Analyze That." Columbia is looking for a new A-list actor for "Scared Guys."
De Niro has closed a deal with an eye toward reteaming with "Analyze This" director Harold Ramis and co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Billy Crystal, who played the reluctant shrink in the original co-production between Tribeca and Baltimore/Spring Creek. The dealmaking for Ramis and Crystal is ongoing.
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Reuters
Oct 18 2001 1:09AM
NEW YORK (Variety) - Robert De Niro has switched mental afflictions.
The actor has dropped plans to produce and play a phobic therapist in "Scared Guys" for director Dean Parisot ("Galaxy Quest"). Instead, he'll reprise his role as an anxiety-ridden mobster treated by a reluctant shrink in "Analyze That," a sequel to the hit 1999 comedy "Analyze This."
The Peter Steinfeld-penned Warner Bros. picture is expected to begin production in February, and De Niro will be getting his career-best payday, near $20 million, sources said. Sources said De Niro received $17.5 million for WB's upcoming "Showtime," co-starring Eddie Murphy.
De Niro, whose salary has soared since he broadened his dramatic resume and made the hit comedies "Analyze This" and last year's "Meet the Parents," had been expected to play against his tough-guy type as a man afraid of everything in "Scared." De Niro and his Tribeca partner Jane Rosenthal joined John Baldecchi in producing the Columbia comedy, with De Niro to have played a phobic therapist who pries himself from the apartment for the first time in years.
While there was talk of pairing him with such actors as Adam Sandler and James Gandolfini in the role of an equally phobic sibling, De Niro dropped the project abruptly, partly because he wasn't crazy about a rewrite, and also because Columbia wasn't crazy about his desire to push back the comedy while he first did "Analyze That." Columbia is looking for a new A-list actor for "Scared Guys."
De Niro has closed a deal with an eye toward reteaming with "Analyze This" director Harold Ramis and co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Billy Crystal, who played the reluctant shrink in the original co-production between Tribeca and Baltimore/Spring Creek. The dealmaking for Ramis and Crystal is ongoing.
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