Leonardo DiCaprio, Malcolm Gladwell and Traffic writer Stephen Gaghan. You’d think these three would have little in common other than Christian names with at least two syllables. But Hollywood, being a batshit crazy place, smells a hit. $1 million has been shelled out by Universal to Gladwell for the rights to Blink. Gaghan’s getting $2 million to write the screenplay. Never mind that the book isn’t a work of fiction and that there’s no narrative thrust to speak of.
No word yet on how much the hair stylist is getting to shape Leo’s hair into Malcolm’s badass fro.
The sequel will be Don’t Blink.
The hairstylist is getting time-and-a-half, given that he’s starting from the plastered-down-helmet ‘do Leo wore as Howard Hughes.