Jude Law, ‘Challengers’ Screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes to Make Film

Jude Law is ready to be challenged by screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes.

Law shared in an interview with Vanity Fair that he is set to work with “Challengers” scribe Kuritzkes on a Mike Nichols-inspired film.

“I’m developing a project with Justin Kuritzkes, who just wrote ‘Challengers,’” Law said. “The thing that bonded us was Mike Nichols. I said, ‘I think this is a Mike Nichols film.’ He was like, ‘Well, you would know.’ He felt the same when he went into ‘Challengers.’”

While Law kept the details of their upcoming project under wraps, he did reveal there would be a “sexual-social intercourse” element, much like in tense love triangle dramedy “Challengers” and late filmmaker Nichols’ famed works. Nichols directed Law in the 2004 romantic quadrangle drama “Closer.”

“If you’re true, if you get the tone right, there is something about that kind of intelligence and honest and sexual-social intercourse that is just irresistible in filmmaking and in storytelling,” Law said. “Mike is kind of the cherry on the cake of it — you don’t get them that often. But to emulate, to try and be inspired by that kind of filmmaking, we shouldn’t lose that just because it’s not happening regularly nowadays.”

Law pointed to the rising box office success of “Challengers,” suggesting there seems to be an audience demand for movies for adults. Even if studios don’t want to make them anymore.

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