'Adjustment Bureau' helmer to develop, direct social-media thriller 'XOXO'
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has inked a development deal with director George Nolfi (THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU), attaching him to helm and oversee a rewrite of social media thriller XOXO, Variety's Rachel Abrams and Jeff Sneider report. Written by BLACK SWAN scribe Mark Heyman, project is an elevated genre tale set in the world of Facebook. Story follows an on-the-rise exec who’s engaged to be married but enjoys
flirting online. He meets an alluring woman on Facebook and the two
begin a virtual relationship, but the protag soon discovers that his
Internet romance is seeping into his actual life in a deadly way. Darren Aronofsky and Michael London (SIDEWAYS) will produce.