This Week In Script Sales: March 8-14 2008

by Liam on March 14, 2008 · Comments

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Bone

Written by: Jeff Smith (creator)
Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures
Three cousins from the Bone family, who are small, white and bald humanlike creatures with big noses, run out of their hometown and find themselves in a mysterious valley where they are separated and hunted by other creatures. They are taken in by a girl named Thorn and her grandmother, and find out that the valley is threatened by an evil force called the Lord of the Locusts.

Snaked

Written by: Clifford Meth
Sold to: Independent producer(s)
Centers on the personal and political exploits of a government employee with supernatural, snake-like abilities.

Imaginary Larry

Written by: David R. Goodman
Sold to: Odd Lot Entertainment
After a young boy grows up, he no longer needs his 30-year-old imaginary friend Larry. When the man kisses a girl for the first time, the action permanently banishes Larry to Imaginary World. Larry vows to make himself real and exact revenge on the girl who stole his best friend.

Untitled O’Keefe & Staples Project

Written by: Sean O’Keefe & Will Staples
Sold to: Universal Pictured
An elite team secretly journeys to a foreign country to take down an international criminal. When the mission is compromised, the team suddenly finds itself on the run, desperate to uncover the truth behind a major conspiracy.

Untitled Apatow Comedy

Written by: Judd Apatow
Sold to: Universal Pictures & Sony Pictures Entertainment
Being kept under wraps. Judd Apatow will also produce and direct. Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann will star.

The Blade Itself

Written by: Aaron Stockard
Sold to: Miramax Films
Two childhood friends from Chicago make their reputation committing petty crimes as kids before choosing different paths in life. When they are reunited years later, one is forced to decide how far he will go to protect the secrets of his past.

Harbinger

Written by: Jim Shooter (creator)
Sold to: Paramount Pictures
Harbingers are humans with powers that can be unlocked by “omega” harbingers. Teenager Pete Stanchek finds himself on a collision course with an older “omega” who used his gifts to become an evil industrialist.

Untitled Kutzera & Mickel Project

Written by: Dale Kutzera & David Mickel
Sold to: Twentieth Century Fox
Animal-themed story.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Written by: Kent Nichols & Douglas Sarine
Sold to: Emmett/Furla Films
A group of scientists must work together in order to save the world from mutated, killer tomatoes. Remake of the 1978 cult film.

Shell Game

Written by: Len Wiseman & Chris Morgan
Sold to: Columbia Pictures
Set in the future, a detective is faced with a moral dilemma as he investigates the dangerous black-market business of immortality.

Sacrilege

Written by: Neil Marshall
Sold to: Rogue Pictures
Set in the Old West during the Gold Rush.

Rosemary’s Baby

Written by: No writer yet hired
Sold to: Paramount Pictures
A young couple move into a gothic New York apartment, where they are befriended by their elderly neighbors. After the woman becomes mysteriously pregnant, she discovers that the neighbors actually are part of a coven of witches and that her husband has allowed her to be impregnated by the devil in exchange for a successful career. Remake of the 1968 classic.

Monster Zoo

Written by: Douglas TenNapel (author)
Sold to: Paramount Pictures – for low-six against seven figures!
At a zoo, an ancient idol awakens and starts to mutate the caged animals, and a group of teenagers must band together to try to stop the idol and the evil from destroying the world.

Uprising

Written by: Charles Leavitt
Sold to: Columbia Pictures
After Earth becomes occupied by a powerful alien race, an uprising by a group of Earth’s citizens occurs. Wolfgang Petersen will direct.

Untitled Muppet Movie

Written by: Jason Segel & Nick Stoller
Sold to: Walt Disney Pictures
No details given.

The Wishbones

Written by: Tom Perrotta
Sold to: Warner Independent Pictures
A 30-year-old failed musician, living with his parents in New Jersey, is about to marry his longtime girlfriend when he begins an affair with a bohemian poet from Manhattan who makes him question his life and future.

1906

Written by: Brad Bird
Sold to: Warner Bros. Pictures & Walt Disney Pictures
A college student begins to investigate the murder of his father, uncovering a web of deceit that has left the city vulnerable to the sort of fire that breaks out when the Great Earthquake of 1906 hits San Francisco.

Lil Homiez

Written by: Robert Townsend & Dallas Jackson
Sold to: Overture Films
Five multiethnic kids try to save their neighborhood from being taken over by an evil land developer.

Heavy Metal

Written by: No writer yet attached
Sold to: Paramount Pictures
Centers on eight or nine erotic & violent stories. Inspired by the 1970’s magazine Heavy Metal.

Source: Done Deal Professional

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