More than three decades ago, Ron Howard decided that a story about a fictional New York City tabloid was just his type. The Paper centered on Michael Keaton — in his third film with Howard — as Henry Hackett, metro editor of the New York Sun , who navigates a motley roster of colleagues, including his nemesis in managing editor Alicia Clark ( Glenn Close ), over a 24-hour period to get that day’s edition to newsstands. After directing Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in 1992’s Far and Away , Howard was itching to do a film about a newspaper that harkened back to titles like Cary Grant’s 1940 comedy His Girl Friday . Steven Spielberg introduced Howard to Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, who was working on the script for The Paper with brother Stephen Koepp, a Time magazine editor.…