Recent script sales update #3
Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are recent script sales since April 25, 2008. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.
The Transitional Guy
Romantic Comedy
A struggling writer uses his own dating experiences for a book and becomes known as the perfect ‘transitional guy’ for women just leaving relationships. Problems arise when he falls for one of his temporary dates.
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
The Debt
Thriller
Twenty years after the end of WWII, three Mossad agents learn that a Nazi war criminal is still alive and set out to pursue him across Europe.
(05/04/2008)
[Remake]
Comments: Remake of an Israeli thriller.
Q
Thriller
The U.S. government goes into lockdown when an epidemic breaks out.
(05/04/2008)
[Novel]
Comments: Based on actual but little-known draconian quarantine laws.
The Art of Making Money
Drama
Notorious counterfeiter prints more than $10 million in fake bills.
(05/04/2008)
[Magazine Article]
Comments: Phillip Noyce will direct based on Jason Kersten’s 2005 profile of counterfeiter Art Williams in Rolling Stone magazine. Frank Baldwin will do the adaptation.
Dumped
Comedy
Two lifelong friends experience a difficult breakup when one suddenly embraces adulthood while the other refuses to let go of his careless, bachelor lifestyle.
(05/04/2008)
[Spec]
Price: Low-six figures
Resurrection
Thriller
A group of survivors try to take back control of the planet after an apocalyptic invasion.
(05/04/2008)
[Comic Book]
Comments: Based on the comic book series created by Marc Guggenheim.
Extract
Comedy
A flower extract plant owner deals with workplace issues and a stream of bad luck, including his wife’s affair with a gigolo.
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Jason Bateman
Comments: Mike Judge will write and direct.
Arena
Action, Sci-Fi
A group of modern-day soldiers are mysteriously transported from the thick of battle to a terrain-shifting landscape where they must fight the best warriors from different eras and histories in a gladiatorial fight to the death or be killed by the all-powerful operators of the ‘Arena.’
(05/04/2008)
[Spec]
Untitled by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
Comedy
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Matt Lanter, Vanessa Minnillo, Carmen Electra, Kim Kardashian, G-Thang, Nicole Parker, Crista Flanagan, Ike Barinholtz
Comments: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer will write and direct.
The Girlfriend Experience
Drama, Indie
Wealthy men pay not just for a sexual encounter but also for a woman who will play the role of a perfect girlfriend.
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
Comments: Steven Soderbergh will direct.
Happy New Year
Drama
Soldiers return from Iraq to a run-down VA hospital.
(05/04/2008)
[Play]
Comments: Based on the stage play by K. Lorrel Manning.
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
Drama
The father of a young meth addict finds himself helpless to stop his son’s downward spiral.
(05/04/2008)
[Book]
Comments: Paramount and Plan B have have acquired rigths to two memoirs for a film about drug addiction: David Sheff’s.
Untitled by Joel Surnow and Michael Loceff
Thriller
Contemporary spy thriller.
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
Comments: Martin Campbell will direct, possibly as a star vehicle for Tom Cruise.
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Family
An unruly 11-year-old girl is bounced between foster families until she lands with the kooky Trotters, an experience that eventually allows her to make peace with her past.
(05/04/2008)
[Novel]
Comments: David Paterson adapted the novel by his mother Katherine.
Dusty Springfield Biography
Biography
Dusty Springfield of singer Dusty Springfield.
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Nicole Kidman
Comments: One of several Dusty Springfield projects in development.
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
Action, Adventure
A conflicted yet extraordinary teen yearns to discover secrets about himself and his family as he battles alien outlaws who threaten life on Earth.
(05/04/2008)
[Novel]
Comments: Based on the young adult novel by James Patterson.
The Hungry Ghosts
Drama, Indie
Divorcees try to keep their troubled son off the streets.
(05/04/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Steve Schirripa, Sharon Angela, Nick Sandow, Aunjanue Ellis
Comments: Michael Imperioli will write and direct.
Brigadier Gerard
Comedy
(05/04/2008)
[Short Story], [Spec]
Comments: Based on a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
In the Loop
Satire
War hungry politicians in U.S. and British government agencies.
(05/03/2008)
[Script], [TV Series]
Stars: James Gandolfini, Steve Coogan, David Rasche, Anna Chlumsky
Comments: Armando Iannucci will write and direct this unofficial adaption of the BBC series ‘The Thick of It.’
An Invisible Sign of My Own
Drama
A child turns to math for salvation after her father becomes ill. As a 20-year old loner, she teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
(05/03/2008)
[Novel]
Stars: America Ferrera
Comments: Marilyn Agrelo will direct.
Dan Mintner: Badass for Hire
Comedy, Spoof
Action spoof about the baddest dude in the world in supertight jeans, chewing on a matchstick, stuck in the ’80s but kicking ass in the present day.
(05/03/2008)
[Spec]
Price: $500,000 against $1 million
Executive VP, David M. Murch’s Adventures in the Land of Zametherea
Comedy, Fantasy
A boy has the ability to travel to a magical land, but after coming home and telling his parents about his adventures, they have him committed. The boy grows into a coldhearted executive, then gets the call to return to the magical land. The man must get help from his estranged son to save the land.
(05/03/2008)
[Spec]
Price: $850,000 against $1.35 million
Ninja Assassin
Action
A man is brought up in an orphanage that functions as a ninja farm. He turns his back on his tradition to make his way in the modern world, which brings him into conflict with a ninja from the clan.
(05/03/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Rain, Rick Yune, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles
Comments: James McTeigue will direct.
Clock Tower
Horror
Young woman receives a disturbing phone call from her estranged mother warning her not to come home. When she investigates, she uncovers a terrible supernatural truth from her past.
(04/27/2008)
[Video Game]
Comments: 6/21/2006: Chilean Jorge Olguin will driect based on a Japanese videogame franchise. Jake Wade Wall did the adaptation.
Update: 4/30/2008: Senator Entertainment will produce. Eric Poppen is the latest writer. Martin Weisz will direct.
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Recent script sales this week
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