Nicole Kidman is developing a remake of the 1973 Alan J. Pakula film Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing as a possible starring vehicle, The Wrap reports. Kidman’s production company Blossom Films is developing the project with producers Laura Ziskin and Susan Landau, as well as Kidman’s Blossom partener, Per Saari (who co-produced Kidman’s current Oscar vehicle, Rabbit Hole).
The original film starred Timothy Bottoms and Maggie Smith as tourists who meet in Spain and find themselves falling for the other, despite mutual uncertainty about the viability of a long-term relationship. Love and Pain…, directed by Pakula (All The President’s Men) and written by Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People, Spider-Man) has a relatively impressive 7 out of 10 stars on IMDb. 
Nicole Kidman has recently been pursuing roles as far from her blockbuster contemporaries as possible, following her turn as a bitter, bitchy writer in Margot at the Wedding with her role in Rabbit Hole, about a husband (Aaron Eckhart) and wife coping with the death of their child. To shake up this approach Kidman will be seen alongside Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Columbia’s Just Go With It, releasing February 11.
What do you think of Nicole Kidman’s recent projects? Does Love and Pain… sound interesting?