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Spec Market News
A hub to find all news focused on the spec market, including feature specs, tv specs, pitches and film rights projects.
Carter Blanchard is storming Hollywood with his feature pitch based on Federico Heller’s incredible short Uncanny Valley, which we can confirm is already into six territories–with more to come!
Yann Martel, the author best known for Life Of Pi, is set to debut his latest novel The High Mountains of Portugal in February but with film and television rights currently up for grabs, the title is already generating buzz in Hollywood.
Being pitched as The Martian meets Mad Max, the next big property from the creator of Deadpool is gearing up to hit the rights market in a BIG way!
Divergent author Veronica Roth has a pair of Young Adult novels in the works, set to be published by HarperCollins in 2017 and 2018, with the rights to both starting to seriously heat up on the market.
Cell 7 is set in a world where a reality TV show has replaced the criminal justice system. Written by YA author Kerry Drewery, the novel is an exciting new title on the rights market, presenting a powerful new look at the death penalty.
Robert Lynn’s dynamic new action spec Designated Survivor has quickly spread like a wildfire through town, landing at six major territories.
A new retelling of Pride And Prejudice gives Jane Austen’s classic tale a modern twist. The film rights to bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel, which hits bookstores in April of 2016, are already ‘eligible’ on the rights market.
Wesley Chu’s latest sci-fi thriller, The Recovered, is starting to heat up the rights market. His previous novel, Time Salvager, sold to Paramount, with Michael Bay and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura attached to produce.
Chris Pavone has a new thriller in the works, and although it has yet to be released, it’s already turning heads on the rights market. The Travelers finds a travel writer caught up in a deadly conspiracy with global implications.
Lindsay Mattick’s expressive and honey-sweet children’s tale Finding Winnie was previously under option with Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment, but is once again available on the rights market. The children’s picture book recounts the true story of Winnie, a bear that later become the inspiration for ‘Winnie the Pooh’.
David Talbot exposes the truth behind Allen Dulles, the man responsible for transforming the CIA into the most powerful-and secretive-organization in Washington. The non-fiction work has been hailed as the year’s best spy thriller, and the TV and film rights are now available.
2015 Launch Pad Pilot Competition overall winner David Hoffman isn’t just an amazing television writer. His feature spec, The Great Debate, made waves at the Austin Film Festival, and is now hitting the market with plenty of heat behind it.
Writer and food blogger serves of a new, female-driven tale that is being described as The Devil Wears Prada meets Kitchen Confidential. CAA is handling the film rights with Janklow & Nesbit repping the book which is in stores now.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has written a book detailing his ascension to one of the most powerful positions in the world, and how he and his team steered the US economy through one its most tumultuous periods in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The TV and film rights are now available.
A young actress and former nun take a decades-long journey through Hollywood together in the latest book from bestselling author Adriana Trigiani, a former writer and producer for television.
With elements of the classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Greg Bardsley’s second novel creates a wish-fulfilling comedy for adults, and it’s now available on the film rights market.
The Reply All podcast’s episode Shipped to Timbuktu, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman, has hit the rights market. The remarkable true story, which initially aired in June, is being compared to Life is Beautiful.
Michaelbrent Collings’ spec Strangers, based on his own bestselling novel, is burning up the market today. It’s already into multiple territories, with some big name buyers eyeing the twisted take on the contained thriller.
We Were Never Here by Krystal Sutherland hits the rights market a year ahead of its publication and is already receiving comparisons to John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars. It’s that kind of buzz that’s turning heads today in Hollywood.
Joe Hill, the son of Stephen King, continues to make his own way in the horror genre with his next book, The Fireman, currently on selective submission for film and television rights. The book is set for publication next spring.
From the bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die comes a new spin on The Snow Queen, described as “Frozen all grown up.” Story follows a teen who escapes a mental institution only to get lost in a land of ice, where she learns her destiny is to save the mysterious land from an evil king.
The author of the upcoming film The Danish Girl and bestselling The 19th Wife is back with a new novel on the rights market centering on the dynamics of a professional tennis family.
The bestselling–and often polarizing–author of Primary Colors, Joe Klein, sees his latest book, Charlie Mike: A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home land on the rights market.
Rainbow Rowell’s latest novel, Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow, is drawing favorable comparisons to Harry Potter, with a fully-realized world of magic and monsters.
Melissa Scrivner-Love, a co-producer on the hit CBS series Person Of Interest, has written a remarkably thrilling novel, the rights to which are generating buzz on the rights market.
Evan and Shea Mirzai are out with a new international action comedy spec that’s shaking up the town. We’re hearing it’s already into several territories, with some big name producers eyeing this hot property.
Amy Stewart has published a new period-mystery novel telling a fictional account of a gun-toting heroine who becomes the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs. The work has become a National Indie Bestseller and New York Times Editors’ Choice, as well as appearing on numerous “Must Read” lists.
Khan’s debut follows Max and Carys, two lovers stuck in space, as they contemplate their relationship and their current situation as the last few minutes of oxygen deplete, and is prime for a film adaptation.
Alibar might be best known as the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter of the Oscar nominated fantasy-drama Beasts of the Southern Wild, but ahead of the release of her debut novel, the rights are generating early buzz on the market.