Recent script sales update #4

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Friday, May 9th, 2008

Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are recent script sales since 5/4/08 through 5/9/08. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.

A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Comedy
A 30-year-old is forced to grow up when his father decides to sell the family vacation home in the Hamptons, bringing an end to his tradition of throwing elaborate summer theme parties. Wanting to go out with a bang, he enlists his friends to throw one final party — an orgy.
(05/09/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Jason Sudeikis, Will Forte, Leslie Bibb
Comments: Pete Huyck and Alex Gregory will co-direct.

Revelation
Thriller
Female journalist investigates a series of bizarre murders and discovers that the victims were all being treated by the head of an organization that researches alien abductions.
(05/09/2008)
[Script]

Comments: James McTeigue will direct.

I Hate You, Dad
Comedy
A father moves in on the eve of his son’s wedding and promptly begins feuding with the bride-to-be.
(05/09/2008)
[Pitch]

Bioshock
Action
In an underwater city based on the free market principles of Ayn Rand, things have gone disastrously wrong.
(05/09/2008)
[Video Game]

Comments: John Logan is negotiating to adapt the video game. Gore Verbinski will direct.

Buck Rogers
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Pilot awakens in the 25th Century and battles evil.
(05/09/2008)
[Comic Book]

Passenger Side
Comedy
Two brothers who spend the day driving around Los Angeles looking for the meaning of their lives and cheap street drugs.
(05/09/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Adam Scott
Comments: Matt Bissonnette will direct.

Unttiled by Jeff Morris
Comedy
In the vein of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.’
(05/09/2008)
[Pitch]

Pandorum
Action, Sci-Fi
Crewmen aboard an abandoned space craft must discover what’s happened to them and to the planet they’re orbiting.
(05/09/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster
Comments: Christian Alvart will direct.

Due Date
Comedy
The wife of a hard-charging business exec from L.A. is about to have their first child. The dad-to-be gets stuck in a snowstorm and must hitch a ride with a laid-back college kid to make it to the birth on time.
(05/09/2008)
[Pitch]

Drive the Night
Horror
A couple get lost on a haunted road in the Australian Outback and spend the night fighting for their lives.
(05/08/2008)
[Script]

Perkins’ 14
Horror
(05/08/2008)
[Pitch], [Script]

Comments: Lane Shadgett wrote the script from a pitch by Jeremy Donaldson.

Ex-terminators
Comedy, Indie
Three women meet in an anger-management therapy group and decide to form a traditional business using very untraditional methods.
(05/08/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge, Matthew Settle, Amber Heard
Comments: John Inwood will make his feature directorial debut.

Endgame
Drama, Political, Thriller
Secret talks between Afrikaner members of South Africa’s white rule government and ANC exiles help secure the release of Nelson Mandela and end Apartheid in South Africa.
(05/08/2008)
[Book], [Script]

Stars: William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller
Comments: Paula Milne wrote the script, based primarily on Robert Harvey’s book ‘The Fall of Apartheid.’ Peter Travis will direct.

Fruitcake
Comedy, Holiday, Indie
A boy named after his favorite dessert runs away from home during the holidays after he and his parents are caught shoplifting meat. He then meets up with a runaway girl raised by two gay men searching for her birth mother.
(05/08/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Parker Posey
Comments: John Waters will write and direct.

Faithless
Horror
A young woman thinks she is leaving her abusive life behind when she moves to Atlanta and ends up living at her family farm. She quickly learns that abuse comes in even crueler forms.
(05/08/2008)
[Script]

Comments: Stewart Hopewell will direct.

The Adventures of William Tell
Adventure
The story of 14th century Swiss hero William Tell who, legend has it, was forced to shoot an apple off his sons head to win his freedom from Austrian occupiers.
(05/08/2008)
[Play], [Script]

Stars: Kiera Chaplin
Comments: Ian Quinn will make his directorial debut. Cornelius Schregle will script based on Friedrich von Schillers 1805 play

Boomsday
Comedy
D.C. lobbyist casts herself in the center of a firestorm after she half-jokingly blogs a solution to the stress that retiring baby boomers will place on the Social Security system: a voluntary suicide program for the aging.
(05/07/2008)
[Novel]

Comments: Ron Bass will adapt the novel by Christopher Buckley.

Same Kind of Different as Me
Drama
An unlikely friendship between a wealthy art dealer struggling to salvage his crumbling marriage and a drifter living on the streets.
(05/07/2008)
[Book]

Little Big War
Comedy, Family
A family must band together to fight action figures that come to life and go on the attack. In the vein ‘Night at the Museum.’
(05/07/2008)
[Script]

Comments: Walt Becker will direct. Based on an idea by Greg Suess.

The Knights Templar
Action, Period
Fresh from the Crusades, the Knights Templar fend off an invading vampire army seeking to destroy the Holy Grail.
(05/06/2008)
[Spec]

Comments: Timur Bekmambetov will direct.

Moon
Sci-Fi, Thriller
A man mines a precious gas that holds the key to reversing the Earth’s energy crisis.
(05/06/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Sam Rockwell
Comments: Co-writer Duncan Jones is also the director.

The Job
Comedy, Drama, Indie
A hapless is desperate to find a job and marry the woman he loves. A drifter hooks him up with a slick employment agent, but after agreeing to the job, the man finds that he is in over his head.
(05/06/2008)
[Play]

Stars: Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning, Joe Pantoliano, Patrick Flueger

Hunter’s Moon
Thriller
Stockbroker takes his son on a weekend hunting trip in the woods. When the teen is kidnapped, the stockbroker must do the criminals’ bidding to save the boy’s life.
(05/06/2008)
[Comic Book]

Stars: Mekhi Phifer
Comments: Based on the grahpic novel by James L. White.

Jane Eyre
Drama, Romance
The epic love story of a governess and her master.
(05/06/2008)
[Novel]

Stars: Ellen Page
Comments: Moira Buffini adapted the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

The Ditch
Action, Sci-Fi
A super maximum-security prison has been constructed on Jupiter’s moon where Earth’s worst criminals are incarcerated. When a prison guard’s family is taken hostage, he is coerced into helping the facility’s most notorious terrorist, a man who was scheduled to be executed that day, escape.
(05/05/2008)
[Spec]

Let the Right One In
Thriller
Contemporary vampire tale: a 12-year-old boy who befriends a young female neighbor who moves to town.
(05/05/2008)
[Remake]

Comments: Remake of the Tomas Alfredson-directed Swedish film. A screenwriter will be hired.

Hours of Fun
Comedy, Family
Two friends order a slew of novelty toys (X-ray glasses, transforming robots, etc.) from the back pages of their late-’70s comic books. Thirty years later, the toys begin living up to their wild advertising claims, forcing the pair to save their town from the ensuing chaos.
(05/05/2008)
[Rewrite], [Script]

Comments: John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have been hired to rewrite an original script by Greg Pace

Previous script sales updates:
Recent script sales update #3
Recent script sales through 4/25
Recent script sales this week