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So you would think that writing the script for the romance superhit Ghost would pretty much qualify you to write any romance movie ever known to mankind.  Seriously, if you wanted to write a romance about two garden slugs who find each other in the middle of the Great Salt Flats, all you’d have to do is say “And I wrote Ghost”, and then every single studio on the face of the earth would be rushing to throw money at you just so they could scream breathlessly in all their PR material “From the writer of Ghost“.

Forklifts might be involved.

So what’s next for Bruce Joel Rubin?  Well, he’s just come off The Time Traveler’s Wife, so what does he follow that up with?  Man and woman find love?  High school kids find love?  Two men find love?  That garden slug thing?  What?

If you’re Bruce Joel Rubin, your next stop is Japanese Zombie-town.

I’ll give you a minute to digest that one.  I’m serious, you see–he’s handling the remake of Resurrection, a Japanese film in which the dead are returning to life and digging their way out of their graves.  But rather than lunching up the living, they’re just out to get their old jobs back and move back home.

I’m quite baffled.  This is the kind of thing that romance fodder runs on, I suppose–picture Cast Away type stuff going on literally all over some town, except corpses are involved.

The new movie will be called Rainbow Bridge, but there’s no word on release dates, probably because this sucker’s still in the “being-written” stage.  More when we’ve got it!

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