Recon Literary is out with 8 DAYS A WEEK by Ian Southwood. A busy, single father invents a pill that lands him in an eighth day of the week.
Adrian Garcia
Kaplan Stahler Agency and Recon Literary are out with ESCAPE OF THE ASSASSIN by John James Halligan. A young warden and his guards plunge into the rugged Tennessee mountains in a desperate hunt for a man.
Following his Top 25 placement in the most recent Feature Competition, Launch Pad alum Alexander Vargas has signed with Adrian Garcia of Recon Entertainment.
In 1997 Andre Agassi was ranked 141st in the world, married to a celebrity and consumed with hate for the game that gave him everything. Hitting rock bottom, he embarks on a soul searching mission to slay the nightmare dragon of his youth and feel the power of true love on his way to the 1999 French Open and maybe the greatest comeback in sports history.
By signing with Brad Rosenfeld of Abrams Artists Agency and Adrian Garcia of Recon Literary, Launch Pad alum Alan Baxter joins the 400 writers who have found representation since the Launch Pad Competitions began.
By signing with Brad Rosenfeld of Abrams Artists Agency and Adrian Garcia of Recon Literary, Launch Pad alum Alan Baxter joins the 400 writers who have found representation since the Launch Pad Competitions began.
The larger than life journey of André René Roussimoff, the man who would become Andre the Giant, and the giant who would go on to become an icon. From his humble farm life in rural France, to the largest sell out events the world has ever seen, this is the story of the man who sacrificed everything to entertain the masses, and the personal battles he faced on his way to becoming a legend. Think Big Fish meets The Wrestler.
After the death of their mother, an absent father takes his two sons to the family cabin on a remote Alaskan island, but when disaster strikes they are forced to survive months alone in the frigid wilderness.
With her script phenomenal script COWBOY BOB (pitched as Hell of High Water meets Dog Day Afternoon) propelling her way forward, Melissa joins more than 360 writers who have found reps via the Launch Pad Competition, and the latest to find a home with one of our longtime judges!
Following his Top 10 Finish in the 2017 Launch Pad Feature Competition, Halligan is the latest to land reps coming out of the competition, and is now seeing his script going into agents and producers as it gears up to his the market this week!
The story follows three friends and co-workers who team up to help each other face their terrible exes and bad relationships.
Several LAPD cops are haunted by a malevolent spirit that is tied to the murder of a black youth at the hands of two white cops… all of which was caught on a body cam video that was destroyed in a cover up.
Twelve years after successfully orchestrating an uprising in a small European country, a covert agent returns to oust the violent dictator he put in power – but this time, his opponent knows all of his tricks.
Former Launch Pad, Hit List, Black List and Young & Hungry List Alum Eric Koenig is back and hotter than ever as A-list talent & directors begin to circle his new spec Control.
Logline: Pitched as a modern day 3:10 to Yuma meets The Fugitive, story centers on a female U.S. Marshal who will stop at nothing to ensure the capture and delivery of a dangerous fugitive to the country’s most secure prison.
Logline: “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” meets “Cryano” in this rom-com about a historical novelist who turns to writing erotica when his fiancé leaves him.
Based on the life of Deborah Sampson, a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man in order to join the Continental Army and fight for her country’s independence during the Revolutionary War.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: An untested combat pilot leads a crew of 80 men in 16 bombers on a daring mission to strike at Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbor. After successfully hitting their targets, the planes crash in occupied China and the surviving pilots must evade enemy troops in the hope of escaping with their lives.
Described as “spellbinding” by the NY Journal of Books, Impossible Odds recounts the horrifying kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and her colleague by a band of Somali pirates, as well as their rescue by Navy SEAL Team Six. Originally published in 2013, and written by Buchanan along with her husband Erik Landemalm and Anthony Flacco, the book is heating up the film rights market.
Based on the real life kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan by Somalian pirates and the 93 day near death hostage negotiations, which lead to her dramatic rescue in the middle of the night by SEAL Team Six.
UPDATE 06.06.16: After generating serious heat on the market for the past week, Mitchell LaFortune’s Burn Run has sold to Thunder Road Pictures after the Sicario production company laid down an aggressive bid to snag the spec from the former intelligence officer.
Logline: This is the extraordinary true story of Johanna “Hannie” Schaft, a young woman who dropped out of college to join the Dutch Resistance during WWII, eventually becoming one of their most talented assassins and one of the Nazis’ most wanted enemies.
Logline: Inspired by true events. When an intelligence leak exposes a covert mission in Afghanistan, a grieving CIA operative and his translator must find their way out of the desert, outgunned and hunted by elite special forces. Sicario meets Bourne.
Logline: A hitwoman, with an inoperable tumor that forces her to see visions of everyone she’s killed, must fight her way through a criminal organization in order to kill the man who murdered her family and made her into the monster she’s become.
Launch Pad alum Dan Benamor has signed with Brooklyn Weaver of Energy Entertainment and Adrian Garcia and David Boxerbaum at Paradigm. In January, Benamor’s script became the first to earn the coveted TB Recommends designation of 2016.
Logline: A disgraced FBI agent is forced to reunite with his estranged father to take down armed thieves in the rodeo circuit.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Charlie Beckham’s seemingly perfect world comes crashing down around him on the eve of his biggest case when he finds out his brother is still alive and is linked to the criminal organization he is trying to put away.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Charlie Beckham’s seemingly perfect world comes crashing down around him on the eve of his biggest case when he finds out his brother is still alive and is linked to the criminal organization he is trying to put away.
2015 Young & Hungry writer Fredrick Kotto has signed with Paradigm Talent Agency. Adrian Garcia and Valarie Philips will rep Kotto on the film side, while Andy Patman and Andy Patman will handle TV.
