Earlier this year, it was reported that Universal had won what sounded like a heated bidding war for an untitled Christmas comedy starring Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer, who made a notable pair in Tate Taylor’s otherwise galling The Help.
The basic story, centered on two women trying to get home to their families in time for Christmas Day, is all but identical to John Hughes’ holiday favorite Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, with Chastain co-writing the original treatment alongside Kelly Carmichael and Peter Chiarelli, the screenwriter behind the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians adaptation, set to pen the script …
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