Mike Nichols to Direct J.J. Abrams' ONE LAST THING BEFORE I GO

Mike Nichols is in talks to direct the J.J. Abrams produced comedic drama set up at Paramount Pictures called One Last Thing Before I Go. If Nichols ends up taking the gig, it won't be the first time he's worked with Abrams. The two worked together on the Harrison Ford drama Regarding Henry. Nichols is a fantastic director that has also made classic films such as The Graduate, Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, and The Birdcage. The last film he did was Charlie Wilson's War. 

The movie will be an adaptation of Jonathan Tropper's novel, which "centers on a divorced father suffering through a midlife crisis: His ex-wife is getting married to a nice guy, his college-bound daughter is pregnant, and he may die if he doesn't proceed with a medical operation."

Sounds like a heavy story, but for those of you who have lived through heavy drama, then you also know there's humor to be found in it. This seems like the perfect kind of project for Nichols to take on. Here's the official description of the book...

You don’t have to look very hard at Drew Silver to see that mistakes have been made. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. He lives in the Versailles, an apartment building filled almost exclusively with divorced men like him, and makes a living playing in wedding bands. His ex-wife, Denise, is about to marry a guy Silver can’t quite bring himself to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down. 

So when he learns that his heart requires emergency, lifesaving surgery, Silver makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to use what little time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment, even if that moment isn't destined to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether or not his own life is worth saving.

With the wedding looming and both Silver and Casey in crisis, this broken family struggles to come together, only to risk damaging each other even more. One Last Thing Before I Gois Jonathan Tropper at his funny, insightful, heartbreaking best.