Recent script sales #10
Want to know what Hollywood has been buying in the last week or so? Below are recent script sales since 6/03/08 through 6/12/08. Info on sales price and loglines are included as available.
Time of My Life
Drama
A thirtysomething housewife gets a chance to go back in time to eliminate the lingering doubts about what might have happened had she not settled down.
(06/09/2008)
[Novel]
Girls Like Us
Drama
The lives of singer/songwriters Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon.
(06/09/2008)
[Biography], [Book]
Comments: Based on ‘Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — And the Journey of a Generation’ by Sheila Weller.
Dune
Sci-Fi
The remote desert planet Arrakis produces the interstellar empire’s sole source of the spice Melange — used for distant space travel. An empirewide power struggle ensues over the control of the spice.
(06/06/2008)
[Novel]
Update: 6/6/2008: Josh Zetumer is negotiating to direct.
Deadline
Indie, Thriller
A writer travels to an abandoned house to write a screenplay. A bout of writer’s block and other unforeseen events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
(06/06/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Tammy Blanchard. Marc Blucas
Comments: Sean McConville will direct.
Shortcut
Thriller
Two brothers come upon a rarely used shortcut in their new town — and soon discover the reasons why it’s so rarely used.
(06/06/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Andrew Seeley, Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco
Comments: Nicholaus Goosen will direct.
Marvin
Biography, Musical
Life of iconic singer Marvin Gaye, who was shot to death by his father in 1984.
(06/06/2008)
[Life Story]
Comments: F. Gary Gray will direct.
My Fair Lady
Musical
A simple Cockney flower girl is transformed into a lady.
(06/06/2008)
[Play], [Remake]
Stars: Keira Knightley
Killing Mr. Kissel
True Crime, TV
Two multimillionaire brothers marry the women of their dreams and wind up dead.
(06/06/2008)
[Script]
Stars: John Stamos, Robin Tunney, Gretchen Egolf, Anson Mount
Comments: Ed Bianchi will direct.
Nolan Bushnell Biography
Biography
Biopic of Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.
(06/06/2008)
[Pitch]
Baby Love
Drama, TV
Project Cuddle founder Debbe Magnusen’s enduring battle to prevent baby abandonment.
(06/06/2008)
[Script]
Comments: Andy Wolk will write and direct.
Dallas Buyers Club
Drama
True story of a redneck electrician contracts HIV in 1980 and eventually develops full-blown AIDS by 1986. He’s told to go home and die, but he found of the most risky and effective AIDS related disease management efforts of the time, testing illegal drugs on himself and prolonging his life six years as he helps to treat and extend the lives of thousands of people living with HIV/AIDS.
(06/05/2008)
[Rewrite], [Script], [True Story]
Price: $600,000 against at least $1 million.
Stars: Ryan Gosling
Comments: Guillermo Arriaga is rewriting an original script by Craig Borten and Melissa Wallack. Marc Forster will direct.
Update: 6/5/2008: Craig Gillespie will direct, replacing Marc Forster. Stephen Belber has done a rewrite. Ryan Gosling is negotiating to star.
Ocean
Thriller
A scientist on Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa discovers thousands of coffins containing angel-like bodies, and a giant weapon of mass destruction. A U.N. weapons inspector sent to investigate uncovers a chilling secret about the history of humanity.
(06/05/2008)
[Comic Book], [Novel]
Update: 6/5/2008: Ryan Condal has been hired to adapt.
The Beautiful Miscellaneous
Drama
A 17-year-old awakens from a coma with an exceptional memory and synesthesia, in which words, shapes or numbers become colors, smells or flavors. His father, a demanding physics professor, sends him to a research institute for savants to find a use for his new gifts.
(06/05/2008)
[Novel]
Stars: Freddie Highmore
Roundtable
Comedy, Supernatural
Merlin assembles a bunch of modern-day knights to battle a resurrected ancient evil, only to discover that today’s knights are all washed-up athletes, cowardly scientists or Academy Award-winning actors.
(06/05/2008)
[Spec]
Price: $650,000 against $1 million
Capricorn One
Thriller
A group of astronauts of an aborted mission to Mars.
(06/05/2008)
[Remake]
Comments: Peter Buchman wrote the script for this reimagined remake of the 1978 thriller. John Moore will direct.
The Opposite of Love
Comedy, Drama
A successful 29-year-old Manhattan attorney’s penchant for running away from commitment prompts her to end a relationship just before her boyfriend proposes.
(06/05/2008)
[Novel]
Comments: Kara Holden will adapt the novel by Julie Buxbaum.
The Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll
Drama, Indie
A rock star retreats to his Long Island hometown after his sophomore album flops.
(06/05/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Kevin Zegers, Jason Ritter
Comments: Scott Rosenbaum will write and direct.
The Boston Stranglers
Thriller, True Crime
Were the infamous Boston murders actually committed by multiple killers instead of the single, confessed murderer, Albert DeSalvo?
(06/04/2008)
[Book]
Comments: Based on Susan Kelly’s book. Carl Franklin will direct.
Update: 6/4/2008: Brian De Palma will direct. Alan Rosen is the latest writer on the project.
Cool School
Comedy
A group of out-of-touch ad execs are sent back to high school to find out what teens like.
(06/04/2008)
[Script]
Comments: Wayne McClammy will direct.
Souls of Naples
Drama
Penniless Pasquale and his young wife move into a haunted palazzo, rent free, as a scheming landlord seeks to give his estate an air of normality and lure some paying tenants.
(06/04/2008)
[Play]
Comments: John Turturro will write and direct based on the play by Edoardo de Filippo.
I Spit on Your Grave
Horror
A woman is abducted and brutally raped and then left for dead. She survives, hunts her attackers and dispatches them in graphic ways.
(06/04/2008)
[Remake]
Comments: Remake of the controversial 1978 revenge film, directed, produced and written by Meir Zarchi.
Dare
Indie, Thriller
Three privileged high school seniors decide they can no longer ignore their deepest needs and take the biggest risk of their lives.
(06/04/2008)
[Script]
Comments: Adam Salky will direct based on a short film he made at Columbia.
Hollywood and Wine
Comedy, Satire
A Hollywood chef and an aspiring actress embark on a get-rich quick scheme that results in mistaken identify and a run-in with the mob.
(06/04/2008)
[Script]
Stars: Chris Kattan, David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Horatio Sanz, Chris Parnell
Hexum
Action, Thriller
A worst-case scenario analyst works for the government.
(06/04/2008)
[Pitch]
Price: Seven figures
The Bait
Thriller
A woman, her boyfriend and his friend come up with a plan to rob the houses of wealthy married men by using the woman as ‘bait’ — that is, having her seduce the men — but the plan quickly leads to missteps and murder.
(06/04/2008)
[Remake]
Comments: Matthew Cirulnick will script this remake of a 1995 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.
Previous script sales updates:
Recent script sales update #9
Recent script sales update #8
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
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