The Screenwriter's Corner

Here's a few more of the sales from the past few months. Too bad the word "remake" is in there a few times. Am I the only one who is tired of hearing about remakes? I mean come on!! I know there are only XX number of stories in the world (as the saying goes) but could they at least pretend to try??????

Le Car
Comedy
A group of CIA agents try to foil a plot by an evil car aiming to detonate an H-bomb at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
(06/20/2008)
[Spec]

Comments: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ segment director Wayne McClammy will direct.

The Family Bond
Adventure
A girl goes on an adventure to rescue her mother with the father she never knew she had, a Bond-like spy.
(06/20/2008)
[Spec]

Repeat
Comedy
A couple realize that they are reliving their disastrous wedding day again and again and start to question getting married in the first place.
(06/20/2008)
[Pitch]

Price: Mid-six again seven figures

Four Single Fathers
Comedy, Indie
The bond between four men whose kids attend the same school.
(06/19/2008)
[Script]

Doormat
Comedy
A man who has been walked on his entire life learns to stand up for himself with the help of some unlikely allies.
(06/19/2008)
[Script]

Taken
Drama, Thriller
A married couple coping with infidelity and other adversity heals its wounds after a home invasion. In the vein of ‘Panic Room’ and ‘Unfaithful.’
(06/19/2008)
[Pitch]

No Relation
Comedy
A thirtysomething accountant agrees to be the best man at his estranged, free-wheeling father’s latest wedding, hoping to repair their relationship.
(06/18/2008)
[Spec]

Speech & Debate
Comedy, Drama
A high school drama queen recruits a set of misfits to join the speech and debate club. In the vein of ‘Juno’ and ‘Election.’
(06/18/2008)
[Play]

Comments: Stephen Karam will script based on his off-Broadway play.

Time Traveler
Drama
African American rises from poverty to a distinguished academic and scientific career, and becomes obsessed with developing a time machine to save his father from death.
(06/18/2008)
[Book]

Comments: Spike Lee will co-write and direct.

The Last Call
Adventure, Horror
Two teens on a joyride get hit by a ‘ghost train,’ which is carrying souls from this dimension to another. They wake up on the train and try to solve a mystery that will allow them to return to their regular lives.
(06/17/2008)
[Comic Book], [Novel]

Comments: Evan Spiliotopoulos will adapt the graphic novel written and illustrated by Vasilis Lolos.

Shrink
Drama, Indie
A Hollywood shrink is unable to come to grips with a recent personal tragedy, and becomes a chronic pot smoker who no longer cares about his personal appearance and has lost faith in his ability to help his patients.
(06/17/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Kevin Spacey, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Griffin Dunne, Robin Williams, Pell James, Robert Loggia, Keke Palmer, Laura Ramsey, Gore Vidal, Dallas Roberts, Mark Webber
Comments: Jonas Pate will direct.

The Given Day
Mystery, Thriller
In 1919, the city of Boston is in turmoil as soldiers returning from WWI bring back an epidemic of Spanish influenza.
(06/17/2008)
[Novel]

Comments: Sam Raimi will direct.

Throttle
Horror, Thriller
A motorcycle gang is chased through the desert by an 18-wheel tanker truck.
(06/17/2008)
[Novel]

Comments: Based on the 60-page novella by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill.

Serena
Drama
A Depression-era logging magnate and his wife face off against land conservationists’ attempts to turn their land into a national park.
(06/17/2008)
[Novel]

Price: Mid- to high six figures

Mystery on Fifth Avenue
Family
Parents purchase a 1920s co-op with views of Central Park and hire a young architect to design an elaborately clever
(06/17/2008)
[Newspaper Story]

Comments: Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky will script based on a New York Times article by Penelope Green.

Robotech
Action, Sci-Fi
Earth develops giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashes on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions.
(06/16/2008)
[Remake]

Stars: Tobey Maguire

Update: 6/16/2008: Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to rewrite

Charlie Lucky
Crime, Drama
The criminal career of mobster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano.
(06/16/2008)
[Script]

Strays
Action, Thriller
A group of young consultants on a business trip to Russia mysteriously wake up in an abandoned and radioactive city and must fight to survive the deadly obstacles in between them and safety.
(06/16/2008)
[Script]

Comments: Louis Leterrier is negotiating to develop and direct.

High School
Comedy
A high school valedictorian, after getting high with the school stoner and facing a drug test, makes what seems like the only logical decision: getting the entire school stoned so he can beat the test by making everyone fail.
(06/16/2008)
[Spec]

Comments: John Stahlberg Jr. will direct.

Science Fair
Adventure, Family
Science fair projects comes to life.
(06/16/2008)
[Spec]

Price: $275,000 against $575,000

The Thaw
Indie, Thriller
An Arctic research team is attacked by a killer parasite released by melting polar ice caps.
(06/13/2008)
[Script]

Stars: Aaron Ashmore, Martha MacIsaac, Val Kilmer
Comments: Mark A. Lewis will direct.

Untitled by Mike Rich
Romantic Comedy
True story with elements of ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘The Parent Trap.’
(06/13/2008)
[Pitch]

Untitled by Bryan Schulz and Neil Uliano
Fantasy
Two brothers, visiting their grandfather in New York, meet a man who shows them a mystical realm in Central Park that is in danger.
(06/13/2008)
[Pitch]

Comments: Based on an idea by WB VP Jon Berg.

My Tutor
Comedy
A high school senior flunks his French final, prompting his parents to hire a (sexy) French tutor to help him pass a make-up exam.
(06/13/2008)
[Remake]

Comments: Steven Kriozere will script this remake of the 1983 comedy.