Paramount Pictures has hired Ron Nyswaner ("The Painted Veil", "Philadelphia") to pen the screenplay for "Dover," based on the landmark 2005 trial that stopped a Pennsylvania school board from teaching "intelligent design" over evolution reports Variety.
The town of Dover, Penn., was torn apart by the trial, which essentially pitted religious faith against Darwinism in explaining the origins of life.
A federal judge ruled intelligent design is a form of creationism, the teaching of which is generally frowned upon, since it brings religion into the classroom.
Stanley Kramer's 1960 "Inherit the Wind," starring Spencer Tracy and Frederic March, hinged on much the same topic in its fictionalized retelling of the 1925 Scopes monkey trial.
Perry's third film, "Daddy's Little Girls," opens February 14th.
