2012 Nicholl Fellowship Finalist ENDANGERED is continuing its hot streak! Last night the spec was taken into Warner Bros., DreamWorks and Screen Gems by producers. This brings its territory total to ten with a sale looking imminent.
The spec is pitched as being in the vein of “Crichton” meets “Amblin”. When a drug company discovers a primate over 200 years old, a team descends on the perilous jungle of southeast Asia in search of the Fountain of Youth; only to find there are ancient reasons it has stayed forever hidden.
Written by Ryan Belenzon and Jeffrey Gelber, the script is said to be a follow up of their previous spec “X”. The writing pair are repped by Ida Ziniti at Paradigm and Jeff Belkin at Zero Gravity Management.
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Tried to read this. Gave up before I hit 30… Concept is intriguing I guess — a little Medicine Man (maybe too much) mixed with a little Congo. It’s all an adventure yada yada… But the writing is pretty pedestrian and sometimes hard to follow. Characters are all pretty lame. By page 30 I gave a shit about none.
Read it: Science is pseudo at best, mindnumbingly bad at worst. And the ending has been completely ripped off from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the PS3. Needs MAJOR revisions.