Hugh Jackman is currently in negotiations to star in the upcoming film Bad Education, produced by the same people behind Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone's acclaimed La La Land, Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones of Automatik Entertainment.

The project will not be a film adaptation of the TV series of the same name (although there's already one for that) or a remake of Pedro Almodóvar's crime drama starring Gael Garcia Bernal from 2004. Instead, it will be a totally new production with the script written by written by Mike Makowsky, who wrote the screenplays for I Think We're Alone Now and Take Me. Cory Finley is set to helm, whose black comedy thriller Thoroughbreds was a favorite in this year's Sundance. Meanwhile, Berger and Kavanaugh-Jones will be joined by Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev and Oren Moverman of Sight Unseen, as well as Makowsky.

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A new report by Variety shares that Jackman is in talks for Bad Education. Story details are still being kept under wraps at the moment, other than the teases of it having an Election feel to it and being based on "true events that Makawsky experienced at his high school." Considering that the film is coming from the same people behind the Academy Award-winning La La Land and Jackman's track record as an Oscar nominee himself, it'll be interesting to see if Bad Education can become another Oscar contender for the filmmakers whenever it opens.

It's been a busy 2017 for the Australian actor with the release of Logan - his swan song to playing Wolverine for almost two decades, and The Greatest Showman, which tackles the real-life story of showman P. T. Barnum, who founded the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Interestingly, if Jackman signs on for Bad Education, it will be his second time collaborating with some of the folks who worked for La La Land. Songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote the lyrics for the 2016 film’s OST (music was provided by Justin Hurtwitz) and were also the tandem behind The Greatest Showman's soundtrack.

As fans wait for Hugh Jackman's next move, the 49-year-old is set to star next in Jason Reitman's The Front Runner - which he also filmed last year and is currently in post-production. The biographical dark comedy film is based on Matt Bai's 2014 book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid and will tackle the rise and eventual fall of American Senator Gary Hart, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1988 whose cheating scandal derailed his way to the White House. Jackman, who plays Hart, is joined by Vera Farmiga, Kaitlyn Dever, Sara Paxton, Molly Ephraim, as well as J. K. Simmons and is already being poised as a possible award season contender this year.

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Source: Variety