Glen Powell is set to lead a new version of "Heaven Can Wait" in early development at Paramount Pictures.

Stephen Gaghan, an Oscar winner for his script for Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 crime film Traffic, is writing the project for Powell to star. Based on Harry Segall’s play of the same name, the original 1978 movie Heaven Can Wait starred Warren Beatty and was nominated for nine Oscars including best picture, with the film notching a win for best art direction.

Heaven Can Wait centered on Beatty as an NFL quarterback who dies prematurely due to an antsy angel and returns to Earth in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.

Powell and Gaghan’s project is said not to be a remake - the main character will not be a football player - but will feature the same concept of a man plucked away before his time.

Powell continues to be an extremely in-demand leading man following the success of Sony’s romantic comedy Anyone but You opposite Sydney Sweeney. Other projects in the works for Powell - who can be seen this summer in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man for Netflix and Universal’s action sequel Twisters - include the revenge drama Huntington, Edgar Wright’s adaptation of The Running Man and a new film from J.J. Abrams.

Source: Press Release