Recent script sales update #6

Posted by: the screenwriting mofo on Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are recent script sales since 5/13/08 through 5/16/08. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.

The Godmother
Comedy
(05/16/2008)
[Novel]

Comments: Ron Bass will adapt the novel by Carrie Evan.

Up in the Air
Comedy
Corporate consultant pursues his millionth frequent flyer mile with such zeal that the rest of his life falls apart.
(05/15/2008)
[Assignment], [Novel]

Price: Six figures
Comments: Walter Kirn wrote the novel, and was represented by CAA and literary agent Cynthia Cannell. Sheldon Turner will adapt.

Update: 4/16/2003: Project had previously been set up at Fox 2000 for Jay Roach to direct and produce through Everyman Pictures. Sheldon Turner will now adapt for $250,000 against $600,000, and Ivan Reitman will direct. 5/15/2008: Jason Reitman is the latest writer on the project.

Ugly Me
Romantic Comedy
A beautiful woman dons a fat suit to shield herself from any more romantic upsets.
(05/15/2008)
[Remake]

Comments: Claudio Dabed will direct this English-language remake of a Chilean original.

Mortal Armour: The Legend of Galahad
Adventure, Period, Romance
Galahad’s Quest for the Holy Grail.
(05/15/2008) [Script]

Comments: Mikael Salomon will direct.

Hickory Nation
Drama, Indie
A small Maine coastal community deals with the aftermath of a mysterious hit-and-run accident. The event brings together a teacher and her two students, each struggling with secrets and lies.
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Molly Sims
Comments: Rebecca Cook will write and direct.

Project A
Comedy
A man is trained by the U.S. government as a Cold War experiment to become the world’s biggest jerk.
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Rob Corddry
Comments: Project has been in development for some time.

Tug
Comedy, Indie
A guy’s life begins to unravel when he is torn between staying with his current girlfriend or going back to his psycho ex.
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Sam Huntington, Haylie Duff
Comments: Abram Makowka will write and direct.

My Son, My Son
Drama, Horror, Indie
A man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword.
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

The Butterfly Effect 3
Thriller
A young man with the power to time travel attempts to solve the mystery of his high school girlfriend’s death.
(05/15/2008)
[Sequel]

Bat Out of Hell
Horror, Indie
Hijackers confront the monstrous cargo on a red-eye flight from L.A. to New York.
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

Comments: Joe Dante will direct

Goosebumps
Thriller
(05/15/2008)
[Novel]

Comments: Based on the series of ’safe scare’ series of young adult novels by R.L. Stine.

Lies & Illusions
Action, Comedy
A novelist is hunted by a spy who believes the writer holds millions of dollars in diamonds stolen by his dead fiancee.
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Christian Slater, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Comments: Tibor Takacs will direct.

Get Low
Drama
(05/15/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek

Piranha 3D
Horror
Just as the college crowd shows up to party at Lake Havasu, a prehistoric strain of Piranha is unleashed by a subterranean tremor.
(05/14/2008)
[Remake]

Comments: Remake of the 1978 film. Chuck Russell will rewrite the original script by John Sayles with elements from the spec script ‘Killer Fish’ by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. The original film, directed by Joe Dante, was based on a story by Richard Robinson.

Update: 3/16/2007: Alexandre Aja will rewrite and direct. 5/14/2008: Gregory Levasseur is the latest writer on the project, now planned for 3D.

The Increment
Thriller
A shadowy, elite group of British undercover intelligence operatives are conscripted by a CIA agent to help a weapons scientist defect from Iran.
(05/14/2008)
[Novel]

Long Time Gone
Drama
A mysterious woman enters the life of a dysfunctional family and turns it upside down, one member at a time.
(05/14/2008)
[Novel]

Stars: Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Josh Lucas, Justin Bartha
Comments: Based on the novel by April Stevens. Karen McCullah Lutz did the adaptation. Adam Davidson will direct.

Islands in the Stream
Drama
The various life stages of a reclusive painter during and after World War II, when he moves to the Bahamas.
(05/14/2008)
[Novel]

Stars: Tommy Lee Jones

That Face
Romantic Comedy
A small-town guy lands a mailroom job at a New York cosmetics firm, only to be fired on his first day after telling the owners his honest opinion about their spokesmodel. His chance at redemption comes after snapping a camera phone shot of a beautiful girl on the subway and offering her as a replacement. The foul-mouthed outer-borough beauty needs a lot more than makeup, however, to become a palatable new face for the company.
(05/14/2008)
[Script]

Into Temptation
Drama, Indie
A suicidal prostitute confesses to a priest her plans to end her life on her birthday. The priest then searches for her to intervene.
(05/14/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Kristin Chenoweth, Jeremy Sisto
Comments: Patrick Coyle will write and direct. The script won the McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship.

Previous script sales updates:
Recent script sales update #5
Recent script sales update #4
Recent script sales update #3
Recent script sales through 4/25
Recent script sales this week