“The Girl on the Train” screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson has boarded a new project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she’s signed on to pen a remake of “Indecent Proposal” for Paramount Players. The 1993 erotic thriller starred Demi Moore, Robert Redford, and Woody Harrelson, and grossed $266 million on a budget of only $37 million.
At this point it’s unclear how faithful the new take will be to the original pic, which saw Moore and Harrelson playing high school sweethearts whose marriage is upended when a billionaire (Redford) offers $1 million dollars for the opportunity to spend the night with Moore’s character. Amy Holden Jones (“Mystic Pizza”) wrote the script.
Best known for penning the 2016 adaptation of mega bestseller “The Girl on the Train,” Wilson’s other screenwriting credits include S&M drama “Secretary” and Nicole Kidman-starrer “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus.”
“Indecent Proposal” is just one of a number of projects Wilson has on the go. She’s also tapped to write Disney’s live-action “Snow White” and adapt “Eileen,” Ottessa Moshfegh’s award-winning debut novel, for Fox Searchlight. The story takes place in the early ’60s outside of Boston, where Eileen is working as a secretary at a boys’ prison and dreaming of making a life in the big city. Wilson’s also attached to pen an adaptation of L.S. Hilton’s “Maestra” for Amy Pascal. The bestseller follows a lowly assistant at a posh auction house who goes on the lam after she discovers a conspiracy of art forgeries at her place of employment
