WIRED UP

When Ed Feldman and Charles Meeker nabbed movie rights to “Wired,” Bob Woodward’s tell-all tale of John Belushi’s overdose death, industry insiders figured the project for development limbo. Sounded like a downer. Reinforced stereotypes about seedy Tinseltown. Who could play Belushi but Belushi?

But “Wired” is scheduled to start shooting next spring. Earl Mac Rauch (“Buckaroo Banzai”) has completed a script; Robert Markowitz (“Voices”) will direct on a $10-million budget, said Feldman. No casting yet.

The producers say they avoided the studios and sought independent financing because of the sensitivity of the project. “We always felt this was not a project that could be done by committee,” Feldman said. He promised that it won’t be a morality play “about condemning drugs in Hollywood, (but) about a guy who got caught up in that world.”

One source who’s read the script described it as “surreal” and much more upbeat than the book. In one scene, Belushi returns from the dead to confront Woodward as he probes the comedian’s tawdry death.