Following months of reading submissions that originated from several countries and genres, we, alongside our partners Ridley Scott, Inkshares, and Energy Entertainment, are incredibly proud to announce the fourth round of finalists in our inaugural Launch Pad Manuscript Competition.
In early December, we’re releasing the 2016 Hit List, our compilation of the best year’s best spec scripts as voted on by industry professionals. In preparation for its release, we’re taking a look back at the 2011 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are now.
Continuing the new evolution of his career, The Big Short director and screenwriter Adam McKay is taking on another reality-charged story with a Dick Cheney biopic set at Paramount. According to reports, he began writing this new script after winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay this year.
More News From Around The Web
Shannen Doherty, who played Heather Duke in the original 1988 cult classic Heathers, announced via Instagram that she will be joining TV Land’s reboot of the dark high school comedy. (Entertainment Weekly)
Ruth Greenberg’s apocalypse-Western title The Competitors and sci-fi project The Far Edge of the World from scribe Felix Harrison, both topped this year’s Brit List, the UK’s version of the Black List. (Deadline)
A biopic on the late South African singer and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba is in the works with the Miriam Makeba Estate, Miriam Makeba Foundation and Mama Africa Cultural & Social Trust. (Variety)
ABC has scored the U.S. remake rights to 2012 Belgian TV thriller series Salamander. The original follows an incorruptible, old-school police inspector whose investigation into a suspicious bank robbery makes him the target of both the crooks and the authorities. (Dark Horizons)
ABC is developing an untitled single dad comedy from Men At Work creator Breckin Meyer, Jamie Tarses and Scott Stuber, and ABC Studios. (Deadline)
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