Variety is reporting that Michael Douglas is set to star in Tragic Indifference with 2929 Productions financing and no director named as of yet.
The screenplay will be adapted by Stephen Gerard based on Adam Penenberg’s 2003 book of the same name.
The story features Douglas playing Tab Turner, the attorney who took Ford to court on behalf of Donna Bailey, a single mother from Texas who was paralyzed and nearly died after her Ford Explorer flipped in 2000. The trial exposed the automaker’s indifference to flaws in its SUVs. Turner not only won a gigantic settlement for Bailey, he also got his client her real wish: Ford brass came to her bedside to apologize.
Douglas told Variety, “This gives me the chance to play a different kind of character. I played a lawyer once, in Fatal Attraction, and there wasn’t much about the law in that picture.”
