• Several outlets have picked up this Hollywood Reporter story on the “Fletch Won” project that Kevin was attached to for a very long time. The Weinstein Co. has signed Bill Lawrence to adapt Gregory Mcdonald’s 1985 comic-mystery novel “Fletch Won,” which follows the irreverent detective from his early days as a ne’er-do-well junior newspaper reporter to his partnership with a crime reporter to solve a murder. Bill’s the creator of Scrubs, so naturally, as it’s been rumored for some time, that show’s star Zach Braff will take on the titular role.

So, with this news, it looks like we can close the books on this project as being in the View Askew future. Kevin, a longtime Fletch fan, had at once point planned to write and direct the film, with Jason Lee in the title role. With Lee now a big sitcom star, it’d be interesting to see how that would have panned out if the project was just coming into Kevin’s hands today. Guess we’ll never know…

More on this story at Moviehole as well.