Russell Crowe may be turning to his Gladiator director Ridley Scott to help him bounce back from the box-office disappointment of Cinderella Man.

L.A. papers have reported that their possible upcoming collaboration, A Good Year, will be based on the 2004 Peter Mayle novel of the same name.

It will tell the tale of an investment banker named Max who moves from Britain to Provence to take over his dead uncle’s struggling vineyard. Max’s efforts, however, are made difficult by the arrival of a distant relative from California.

If negotiations between Crowe and Fox 2000 are successful, A Good Year will be the actor’s first film since the Depression-era boxing film Cinderella Man, which was praised by critics but overlooked by audiences.

Crowe was scheduled to work on another book-to-film adaptation, Eucalyptus, in February, but production was postponed indefinitely just days before shooting was to begin.






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