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David Seidler poses backstage with the Oscar for best original screenplay for "The King's Speech" at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Fresh off winning the Oscar for Best Screenplay, David Seidler has moved on to two more films, one a murder mystery, the other about a POW Olympics.
Seidler has been hired to rewrite "The Judge," a screenplay by Nick Schenk ("Gran Torino"), with Robert and Susan Downey producing and David Dobkin ("The Wedding Crashers") directing, according to Variety.
The story revolves around a lawyer who returns home following the death of his mother, only to learn that his estranged father, a judge, is a murder suspect. Naturally, the lawyer sets out to learn the truth about his father, while at the same time reconnecting with his family.
Seidler's other project, announced a day earlier, is "The Games of 1940," reported Deadline, based on the true story of POWs in a Nazi prison camp, who hold their own Olympiad when the real one is canceled due to the war.
