Made of Honor

Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-nominated writer of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, has bagged his first high-profile gig since the release of the Danny Boyle film: he’s been tapped to write a new draft of the Amy Adams romantic comedy, Leap Year.Regular readers may recall that we’ve been highly cynical about Leap Year since it was first announced – not because of Adams, who’s excellent, and not because of the high-concept (Adams travels to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend on Feb. 29, a la the ancient tradition, only for things to go hilariously wrong), but because of its writers, Deb Kaplan and Harry Elfont, the duo who wrote the unspeakably bad Made Of Honour, Surviving Christmas and, just for bad measure, The Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas.Given the hideous Scottish stereotypes they inflicted upon us with Made Of Honour (a film which features an actual caber-tossing competition

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