MONTREAL — C.R.A.Z.Y. director Jean-Marc Vallée is putting the finishing touches on his next project, a disco-era comedy drama about two competing salesmen with an eye for what women want — at least on their feet. Vallée is co-writing the screenplay with Ginger Snaps screenwriter Karen Walton.

Speaking to Playback Daily, Vallée says he will either produce the film himself or connect with a coproducer as he did on C.R.A.Z.Y., which was majority produced by Montreal’s Cirrus Communications. Vallée’s production company C.R.A.Z.Y. Films received a performance envelope from Telefilm Canada, such was its share of the hit’s sensational $6-million box office.

For Walton, who has worked on such television fare as Queer as Folk and The Eleventh Hour, it will be her first foray into French. The budget is pegged under $10 million.

Vallée also has a solo screenplay nearing final draft, Café de Flore, which takes its name from the famous literary and counterculture café in Paris that was the haunt of such figures as Jean-Paul Sartres and Edith Piaf.

The Montreal filmmaker says he is looking forward to getting his life back as he puts the wraps on the period title The Young Victoria, a drama about the early life of Britain’s most enduring monarch that counts Sarah Ferguson and Martin Scorsese among its producers.