Zach Braff Talks Fletch Won

Once we all got over the mourning of the fact that Jason Lee would never play Fletch, I think most of us got on board with the notion of Zach Braff. Then Kevin Smith suddenly departed the project.

Now, with the Weinstein Company's announcement that Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence is writing the script to Fletch Won for his own directorial debut, Braff seems like a given again.

"I am interested," said Braff. "There's not a person more perfect to do Fletch than Bill. He grew up reading the books. It's one of his favorite movies of all time. There was debate with other directors and with Harvey about whether to go back to the books totally which really don't have any of that broad comedy stuff in them, or to do something in between which was find some of the humor in the broadness of some of the Chevy Chase stuff while at the same time being faithful to the way the books were. So I think Bill is going to do a great job of that. In terms of my involvement, I don't know. I'm not signed on to do it yet but it's definitely something I'm intrigued with."

Braff also became friendly with Smith, but doubts any of that work will remain in the project. "I think Bill will probably start from scratch. That'd be my guess, knowing Bill."