Russell going to D.C. for Gore's 'Hill'

March 30, 2007 The project, based on Kristin Gore's inside-the-Beltway novel, centers on a young woman who tries to balance a job as a congressional aide on Capitol Hill while searching for the right guy. Red Wagon's Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing. The book, which at times has been labeled chick lit after it hit shelves in 2004, would seem an unlikely fit for the mercurial director.

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