Sentences with phrase «spec script»

In his spare time during his degree, he wrote spec scripts as a hobby.

Coming off like a hodgepodge of rejected spec scripts for «The Walking Dead,» Anger of the Dead reveals particularly misogynistic and misanthropic filmmaking.

With 2017 about to slip into our rearview, it's time once again to present the best spec scripts of the year

Variety is reporting that TriStar Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Toymaker's Secret, a hot spec script from Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), and has tapped BAFTA and Annie Award - winner Paloma Baeza (Poles Apart) to direct as her feature debut.

UPDATED with more details: Tyler MacIntyre and Chris Hill have sold their original spec script Nightlight, which is being described as a contained horror thriller, to Sony's Columbia Pictures.

Gregg has written screenplays for or sold spec scripts to many of the major studios (including The Book of Henry), and written, developed, and produced television for various networks.

This list differs from The Hit List, which instead focuses on the best spec scripts of the year, with an emphasis on new talent and fresh voices.

Can you talk about the lineage of the film's development, from the initial spec script for «The Cellar» to «Valencia» to the final version?

Director Joel Schumacher (Tigerland) turned his hot spec script into a so - so thriller.

Kunka made his name when he appeared on the Black List after adapting a 52 page spec script called Yellowstone Falls into a fully fledged feature script about wolves battling zombies, so turning the much loved yet simplistic video game into a live action movie shouldn't be a problem right?

She's an east coast transplant living in Los Angeles where she spends her time studying improv comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade, writing TV spec scripts, making art, learning to dance, rewording the name of her Counterterrorism Studies major on the bottom of her resume, and hiking in places with easy nearby access to Korean food.

The screenplay for Me, Myself & Irene was actually a decade old spec script the Farrellys had written with their childhood friend Michael Cerrone.

To put it in Scorsesean terms, Paul Schrader's The Dying of the Light was supposed to be «one for them»: a commercially minded spec script that Schrader put on the market in 2009 with the intention of selling it to the highest bidder and then moving on with his career while someone else made the movie.

Screen Gems has bought Dave Lease and Megan Hinds spec script The Black Phantom.

Relativity lands spec script Smoke from Max Yaney and Luke Goltz (Deadline).

David Ayer is already known for getting down into the gritty and dirty reality of worlds with the likes of END OF WATCH, STREET KINGS and TRAINING DAY, now he's set to take on his own spec script FURY.

• Paramount has purchased George Mahaffey «s original action spec script «Heatseekers» and set the project up with Michael Bay «s Platinum Dunes, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The film is based upon Melissa London Hilfers spec script, adapted from Adam Cohen's book Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck.

Sheridan decided to try his hand at penning a few spec scripts, despite never having written any previously.

Nick Yarborough's spec script ended up on the Black List of well - regarded unproduced screenplays and has now been snapped up by production company Anonymous Content.

The best way to describe just how things play out would be to imagine a situation where four different writers made 35 minute spec scripts on the downsizing concept, and then Payne came along and placed them one after another and called it a movie.

The drama is an Aaron Berg spec script that looks back at the origins of MI6, our very own British intelligence agency, that began during World War I.

20th Century Fox closes deal for A Shot in the Eye spec script from Dan Futterman (Deadline).

American Hustle itself began as a more conventional, procedural dramatization in Eric Warren Singer's spec script American Bullshit, which was then overhauled by Russell into something so different that, at a recent screening, star Christian Bale joked that Singer's script could still be made into its own movie with little redundancy.

This led to some other spec script movement, including the action - comedy «Worst Honeymoon Ever,» about a couple, one of whom is a superspy, and «Monster Problems,» a «Zombieland «- ish post-apocalyptic comedy that's set up at Paramount with Shawn Levy producing.

I know you're probably not interested in reading spec scripts, (especially for sit - coms) but at least if I submit to your agent I can tell myself that I gave it a shot!

The diamond - shiny spec script from Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken has the kind of smack - you - in - the - face obvious narrative thrust that so many lesser thrillers would kill for, given over to exactly the right brand of fledgling directorial talent in Dan Trachtenberg and hand - delivered to a pitch perfect trio of actors performing at the tip top of their ability.

DEVELOP A CAREER STRATEGY Having a portfolio of strong spec scripts is a great foundation on which to build your screenwriting success.

Bradley Cooper is attached to star and Kornel Mundruczo is attached to helm «Deeper», Max Landis» spec script for which several studios are now...

You got your start at age 22, writing spec scripts in Baton Rouge, which eventually got you to Hollywood.

The initial spec script was written by first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah and she succinctly doles out scenarios of polite society, which Graham herself was very much a part of, self - separating on the basis of gender.

And it might be nice to see Whedon return to the action genre — he famously co-wrote (without receiving screen credit) Jan de Bont «s masterful «Speed» and sold a $ 1 million spec script called «Suspension» about a terrorist attack on a bridge (it was never actualized and was, at one point, considered for a sequel to the Sylvester Stallone disaster movie «Daylight «-RRB-.

When I first started novelising Touchstone, back in 2011, I adapted it from a couple of TV spec scripts I'd written.

Ted Griffin's original spec script was rewritten so that the character now played by Hopkins could be William Somerset, played in Se7en by Morgan Freeman.

After burning out on comedy within a few months, he turned to the next best hobby in Los Angeles after performing and writing spec scripts: optimizing one's diet.

10 Cloverfield Lane still feels like the spec script it spawned from, trying vainly to pack tense set pieces and striking moments of violence into its simplistic chamber play.

Dust off those spec scripts, all you as - yet - unsuccessful scribes - Hollywood's apparently paying anyone these days.

As befits many screen legends, the spec script died alone and in search of validation from a fickle,...

Yet, the spec script soon became the tech - startup if its day.

That became — even before Janney had read the script or agreed to be in the film — a key demand as he began shopping his spec script around.

The title alone is enough of an albatross around its neck (all indications are that it was hurriedly tacked onto a spec script), but an out - of - the - blue, utterly gripping trailer that announced the pic's existence a mere two months prior to release ends up its greatest foe.

When their story ends and brings a sense of achievement to the film, though, Fisher chooses to continue the movie as if to remind the audience in a final scene that he really is the most inspiring movie studio security guard who ever wrote a spec script.

The spec script Elizabeth Hannah wrote for «The Post» was the best one «Spotlight» screenwriter Josh Singer had ever read.

When word broke that filmmaker David Ayer was attached to direct Will Smith and Joel Edgerton in a supernatural cop flick called Bright, based on a spec script by Max Landis, most assumed the project would end up at a major studio.

Spanish filmmaker F. Javier Gutiérrez (Before the Fall) may have lost out on the chance to helm the upcoming reboot / remake / whatever of The Crow, but he's since lined up a deal to helm The Greys - now that Dimension Films has gone ahead and purchased Adam Cohen's spec script for the mysterious sci - fi thriller.

God Particle is another contained thriller, which like 10 Cloverfield Lane (originally came in as a spec script titled The Cellar) was set up through Bad Robot and Paramount's low budget division Insurge ($ 5 - 10 million films).

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Media has made a preemptive deal for Timeless, a spec script by Enchanted scribe Bill Kelly which Phillip Noyce is negotiating to direct.