Recent script sales #8
Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are recent script sales since 5/21/08 through 5/28/08. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.
Wedding Banned
Comedy
A long-divorced couple kidnap their daughter on her wedding day to keep her from making the mistake of her life. The divorced parents rekindle their relationship as they elude cops and the angry groom.
(05/28/2008)
[Spec]
Price: $850,000 against $1.6 million
The Colonel
Biography
Colonel Tom Parker, a man with shadowy origins, reinvents himself as the Svengali behind the world’s most famous entertainer.
(05/28/2008)
[Biography], [Book]
Comments: Based on ‘The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley’ by Alanna Nash.
Big Man on Campus
Comedy
In a high school, beauty and brains duke it out and the perception of popular changes, crumbling the power structure.
(05/27/2008)
[Pitch]
Update: 5/27/2008: Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont will rewrite and direct, replacing Mark Teitelman
Table for Three
Comedy
A suddenly single young man invites a ‘perfect couple’ to share his large apartment, only to see them completely disrupt his life when they insert themselves into his new romance.
(05/27/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Brandon Routh, Sophia Bush, Jesse Bradford, Jennifer Morrison, Johnny Galecki, Lisa Lapira
Comments: Michael Samonek will write and direct.
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
Comedy
A lonely reporter and an outspoken teen bond during an animal-rights protest.
(05/24/2008)
[Spec]
Comments: Adam Sachs is a first-time writer who has written for the Harvard Lampoon.
The Birthday Party
Comedy, Crime, Drama
True story: a man returning home from a blind date is accosted by three gunmen. Originally intent on siphoning $1,000 from his ATM, the thugs revise their plan upon learning that their captive has $100,000 in the bank. During the time they hold him hostage, some bonding ensues.
(05/22/2008)
[Book]
Comments: Based on the non-fiction book by Stanley Alpert.
Update: 5/22/2008: Charles Randolph has been hired to adapt.
Relative Stranger
Drama, TV
Angry man abandons his wife, children and extended family. When his father dies six years later, he returns to get what his dad left to him and reunites with his family in the process.
(05/22/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Eriq La Salle, Cicely Tyson, Michael Beach
Comments: Charles Burnett will direct.
Runaways
Action, Adventure
A group of teens discover that their parents are actually super-villains. Running away from their homes, the teens band together and begin a journey of discovery, both of their parents’ origins and of their own inherited powers, while trying to make up for the evil done by their folks.
(05/22/2008)
[Comic Book]
Comments: Brian K. Vaughan will adapt from the comic book series he created with artist Adrian Alphona.
Action, Thriller
Government agents, a criminal and a math whiz on a quest to find a buried Albert Einstein formula that could harness energy with deadly consequences.
(05/22/2008)
[Novel]
Update: 5/22/2008: Sascha Penn has been hired to adapt the novel by Stuart Gibbs.
Flash Gordon
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A handsome polo player is kidnapped and taken to the planet Mongo, where he is pitted against an evil ruler named Ming the Merciless.
(05/21/2008)
[Comic Strip]
Comments: Breck Eisner will direct.
Inner Child
Comedy
An uptight dad has his life turned upside down when his inner child takes control.
(05/21/2008)
[Pitch]
Resurrection
Drama
A government official is sent to a small rural town to investigate the reappearance of a young child who, after missing for 60 years, returns to his mother not having aged at all.
(05/21/2008)
[Remake]
Comments: Williams Nicholson will script this remake of the Japanese blockbuster ‘Yomigaeri,’ based on a novel by Shinji Kajio.
Untitled by Wendy Diane Miller
Thriller
A college student takes on a summer internship and finds himself trapped in a dangerous affair with the boss’s wife.
(05/21/2008)
[Spec]
The Eagle of the Ninth
Adventure, Period
A young Roman centurion travels to Scotland in 135 A.D. to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rome’s Ninth Legion 15 years earlier.
(05/21/2008)
[Script]
Comments: Jeremy Brock will adapt the novel by Rosemary Sutcliffe. Kevin MacDonald will direct.
Manure
Comedy, Indie
A manure salesmen in heartland America in the mid-1960s.
(05/21/2008)
[Script]
Stay Cool
Comedy, Indie
(05/21/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Tea Leoni, Kyle MacLachlan
Comments: Michael Polish will direct.
Hater
Horror
An epidemic of random violence in which ordinary people strike lethally without warning or remorse.
(05/21/2008)
[Novel]
Comments: Based on the novel by David Moody. Glen Mazzara will do the adaptation.
Previous script sales updates:
Recent script sales update #7
Recent script sales update #6
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
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