This (Last) Week In Script Sales: March 15-21 2008

Amulet
Written by: Kazu Kibuishi (author)
Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures
A brother and sister move into their late great-grandfather’s home after their father dies. They must use his amulet to rescue their widowed mother from a beast who lures her into an underground world. Graphic novel published by Scholastic. This will be a five novel series. Willow Smith and Jaden Smith will star.
Lush Life
Written by: Richard Price
Sold to: Miramax Films
A restaurant manager and his bartender set out to walk a drunken friend home on New York’s Lower East Side. One of the men winds up on the wrong end of a bullet, and a murder investigation reveals much about the city and the characters involved in a mugging gone wrong.
Untitled Fogelman Pitch
Written by: Dan Fogelman
Sold to: CBS Films
Four semi-retired baby boomers embark on a getaway to Las Vegas. Pitch, part of a bidding war. Sold for $1 million.
Untitled Antin Project
Written by: Steven Antin
Sold to: Walt Disney Pictures
Musical. Set in a high school.
Dune
Written by: Frank Herbert (author)
Sold to: Paramount Pictures
Set on the remote desert planet of Arrakis, the one planet that produces the interstellar’s sole source of the spice Melange, a empirewide power struggle begins over the control of the spice.
Cyclops
Written by: Alexis Nolent (author)
Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures
Mercenary forces have their soldiers wear Cyclops-like cameras in their helmets and broadcast in real time to both central command and living rooms. One mercenary chosen to lead an elite squad begins to realize he isn’t fighting for freedom and justice as much as for commerce.
Rocket Ship
Written by: Tiffany Paulsen
Sold to: Kopelson Entertainment
A father and son move to New Mexico and discover a large, shiny object buried in the desert behind their home. The discovery triggers events beyond their wildest imaginations.
Gran Torino
Written by: No writer yet attached.
Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures
Being kept under wraps.
Rigged
Written by: Ben Mezrich (author)
Sold to: Summit Entertainment
John D’Agostino, an Italian kid from Brooklyn, studies at Harvard and lands on the Merc Exhange. After establishing himself, he hooks up with another young trader and a mysterious Middle Easterner to engage in a dangerous scheme to revolutionize the oil trading industry. Book, full title “Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai”. True story.
Vanity
Written by: Adam Simon
Sold to: Hero Pictures International
Teens and young adults across continents deal with major issues in their lives.
Untitled Monahan Project
Written by: William Monahan
Sold to: Paramount Pictures
A drug dealer is traded a prison sentence to go undercover at a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane, where he tried to get a serial killer to divulge the whereabouts of his victims. To be based on an article that will appear in “Playboy” magazine later this year.
The Witness
Written by: Sandra Brown (author)
Sold to: Broken Road Productions
An idealistic public defender discovers a dark secret in the forest near her small South Carolina town. It leads her to turn state’s witness against her white supremacist ex-husband and father-in-law as she struggles to discover whom she can trust.
The Low Dweller
Written by: Brad Ingelsby
Sold to: Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions and Appian Way
Set in Indiana in the mid-1980s, a man is released after serving years in prison for murder, and wants only to follow through on his promise to marry his long-suffering girlfriend. That is, until he discovers that his loser brother has been murdered after getting involved in a seedy midwestern gambling racket. While the man did time for a murder he couldn’t avoid, he decides he can’t skip out on his obligation to avenge his brother’s murder. Spec script. Ridley Scott, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brooklyn Weaver and Relativity Media will produce. Ridley Scott will possibly direct.
Ronin
Written by: Joby Harold
Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures
A masterless samurai is reincarnated in a dystopic near-future New York populated by squatters, factions and mutants. The ronin must try to destroy a demon with a mystic sword, which also is found in New York.
Minimum Wage
Written by: Tegan West
Sold to: Tapestry Films, Inc.
A thieving corporate executive is sentenced to live on minimum wage in the town his company bankrupted.
Bloom
Written by: Joby Harold
Sold to: Universal Pictures
An 11-year-old and his two friends acquire possession of a physics book that enables them to alter the physical properties of the world, including gravity.
Beat Kip
Written by: Todd Waldman & Rob Kerkovich
Sold to: Comedy Central
Three struggling college graduates find a purpose in life: to travel across the country to fight an Ivy League student who stole one of their girlfriends.
Source: Done Deal Professional
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