EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is in negotiations to acquire THE GENERAL, a George Washington pic with Darren Aronofsky attached to produce and direct from a script by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage. Par is exclusively eyeing the project under its first-look deal with Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures banner. If the studio doesn’t close a deal in the next couple of days, others get a shot — and interest is expected to be high, with Aronofsky coming off the $329 million worldwide gross and awards success of BLACK SWAN. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources tell SHOWBLITZ that the script is more of an UNFORGIVEN-like tale rather than a straight historical drama. -Josh Dickey and Jeff Sneider
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