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After finding success on the small screen with her
US TV series, 'Life With Bonnie', on which she plays
a working mum, writer/director/actress Bonnie Hunt
will try her hand at motherhood on the big screen.
And she's joining Steve Martin in 20th Century Fox's
remake of 'Cheaper by the Dozen' for director helmer
Shawn Levy.
Hunt has closed a deal to star in the role originated
by Myrna Loy in the 1950 comedy about the Gilbreth
family and their often amusing struggle to keep it
all together with a brood of 12 children.
Hunt and Martin are the first two actor deals to close
on the project, but deals for several of the children's
roles are expected to close in the next few days as
production is scheduled to begin March 31, the studio
said.
The original 'Cheaper' was based on the book by Frank
B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Writer Sam
Harper has penned the contemporary adaptation.
Producing the project for the studio are Robert Simonds,
Michael Barnathan and the project's original rights
holder, Ben Myron. Hunt's series has wrapped for the
season, but it recently was picked up for a second
season - and hopefully it will turn up someday in
the UK on a channel that isn't Paramount Comedy.
Steve Martin's latest flick 'Bringing Down The House'
opens this week in the US and 30 May in the UK.
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