Once upon a time, there was a thriving ‘spec script’ aspect to the Hollywood filmmaking industry. On a weekly basis – so the legend goes – agents would send out stacks of screenplays, written speculatively, and would broker deals with studios that would lead to interesting movies. Since around 2008, that ‘spec script’ aspect has been drastically reduced – and now the instances of speculative screenplays being purchased are relatively few and far between. For this reason, the news that Lionsgate has beaten out competition to snap up a ‘spec script’ titled Couple Up, is well worth celebrating.
The concept of the ‘spec script’ has been responsible for some of the most classic, iconic movies in modern cinema. Even some of the most successful film franchises – including Lethal Weapon and The Matrix – were borne of the sale of speculative writing. The change in the attitude of Hollywood studios toward speculative writing arguably coincided with...
The concept of the ‘spec script’ has been responsible for some of the most classic, iconic movies in modern cinema. Even some of the most successful film franchises – including Lethal Weapon and The Matrix – were borne of the sale of speculative writing. The change in the attitude of Hollywood studios toward speculative writing arguably coincided with...
- 4/28/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
David Permut, a producer on Youth in Revolt, has joined Dave Gross and Jesse Shapira to develop a project entitled Pictures of You, a teen romantic comedy that will certainly spin from the same territory as Revolt and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
Pictures of You was grabbed from 2007’s Black List of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood, and was written by Joshua Friedlander (Suicide Blonde). The film will center on “a teenage boy who finds a lost camera on the beach. After developing the film, he ends up on a quest to find the girl of his dreams, whose picture was discovered inside the camera.” I’d doubt the strength of a script with a log line like that, but if it was on the Black List, who knows?
Permut is currently looking for a director for the film, before casting begins. Would I be foolish to...
Pictures of You was grabbed from 2007’s Black List of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood, and was written by Joshua Friedlander (Suicide Blonde). The film will center on “a teenage boy who finds a lost camera on the beach. After developing the film, he ends up on a quest to find the girl of his dreams, whose picture was discovered inside the camera.” I’d doubt the strength of a script with a log line like that, but if it was on the Black List, who knows?
Permut is currently looking for a director for the film, before casting begins. Would I be foolish to...
- 12/7/2009
- by John Cooper
- ReelLoop.com
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