Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFletch is making a comeback: Jon Hamm will star as and produce a new feature film about the brazen investigative reporter to be directed by Superbad‘s Greg Mottola and Miramax.
The movie, like the Chevy Chase films in the 1980s, is based on Gregory Mcdonald’s 1970s and 1980s Fletch mystery novels.The new film adaptation will specifically be based on the second book in the Mcdonald series, Confess, Fletch.
In a mysterious chain of wild events, Fletch finds himself in the middle of multiple murders- one of which pins him as a prime suspect.
While on a quest to prove his innocence, Fletch is tasked with finding his fiancée’s stolen art collection, the only inheritance she’s acquired.
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