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Unreleased Jessica Biel Film, 'Nailed,' Gets Promising News

Alex Reed |
November 7, 2013 | 12:15 p.m. PST

Staff Reporter

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An unfinished 2008 film starring Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal and several other big Hollywood names may soon be on its way to completion.

Production for “Nailed,” a political comedy satire directed by David O. Russell (“Silver Linings Playbook”), was shut down by the Screen Actors Guild nearly 5 years ago for funding issues. Russell quit production on the film officially in 2010, despite it being only one scene from completion.

Though little progress has been made toward its release since, the possibility resurfaced last year after a raw screening of the film and again this week with the MPAA issuing a PG-13 rating for the film, according to the Huffington Post.

Prior the MPAA rating, producers Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher shot down the likelihood of resuming production.

“I think everyone’s lives have moved on, I don’t foresee particularly, in the polluted circumstance, anyone just coming in and doing the careful three or four months of work,” said Wick, following last year’s screening.

But, the MPAA rating could mean that those views have since changed.

The film is about an uninsured waitress (Biel), who gets shot in the head with a nail and goes to Washington D.C. to fight for her rights. There, she finds herself attracted to the senator (Gyllenhaal) who is helping with her cause.

The film also stars James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Kirstie Alley and Jon Stewart. Completing the film would require the cooperation of Biel and Morgan in filming the final scene, in which Biel gets shot in the head with the nail.

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