Production
Intolerable Cruelty is the Coens' first project based on someone else's idea. The screenplay written by Robert Ramsey and Matt Stone was refashioned by them in the mid 1990s. Initially the screenplay was attached to Ron Howard and then Jonathan Demme, who had planned to cast Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the lead roles. After their planned film of James Dickey's novel To The White Sea fell through, the Coens signed on to direct.
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