Latest Script Deals

From time to time I will chime in with some Hollywood news and probably give my opinion on how terrible the news is. Since we have no clue what type of blog this is; politcal, sports oriented, topographical (that's just a blog about maps), we will give you whatever news we deem is necessary for your survival. Maybe this blog is a survival guide?


LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - MGM has pre-emptively picked up a fantasy comedy spec script that might be up for the longest title of the year award: "Executive VP, David M. Murch's Adventures in the Land of Zametherea."

The story centers on a boy who has the ability to travel to a magical land, but after coming home and telling his parents about his fantastic adventures, they have him committed. Thirty years later, the boy has grown into a coldhearted big-shot mergers-and-acquisitions executive when he gets the call to return to the magical land of his youth. The man must get help from his estranged son, the only person innocent enough to save the land of the man's youth.

Peter Speakman and Michael M.B. Galvin's script went out Wednesday morning and sold by mid-afternoon. They received an $850,000 advance against a $1.35 million payout if the movie is made.

Call me crazy but isn't this just Hook? Who pays a quarter million dollars for Hook 2? Did they even make a Hook 2?

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - New Line has made its first purchase since being downsized to a unit of its Warner Bros. corporate sibling, plunking down a $500,000 advance for "Dan Mintner: Badass for Hire," a comedy spec script by Chad Kultgen.

Producer Beau Flynn described it as: "The baddest dude in the world in supertight jeans, chewing on a matchstick, stuck in the '80s but kicking ass in the present day."

Flynn said the project will be an R-rated comedy in the spirit of "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" and "Wedding Crashers," the kind of movie that "classic" New Line was good at making and that the new iteration will be making as well.

Kultgen wrote "Burt Dickenson, The Most Powerful Magician on the Planet Earth," which is set up at New Line.

This actually sounds pretty funny, if you like Thunderbird convertibles and titles with peoples names in them. That seems to be this writer's forte. I'm sure they'll do something crazy like give the lead a mustache. Shoot me now people.