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The Fatal Attraction limited series is not moving forward — at least not at Fox.
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the reboot of the iconic feature film had trouble casting — Megan Fox and Jenna Dewan Tatum both are said to have passed — as rights issues also may have been a problem.
First put in development in July 2015, Mad Men alums Maria and Andre Jacquemetton penned the script — which insiders say did not come out well. Paramount Television, whose film arm distributed the 1987 film starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, produced. The drama may be shopped elsewhere, though if it does move forward, sources say it would not be called Fatal Attraction. Should it have been picked up at Fox, sources say the title would have been changed to Obsession.
The project, which received a script commitment at the time, was being eyed as a short-order event series — but with the potential to continue for a second season. Stanley R. Jaffe and Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin were on board as exec producers. Fox president of entertainment David Madden developed and supervised the movie — which scored six Oscar nominations — when he was an exec at Paramount’s film studio.
