PATIENT Z hit the town running when it landed. It went into the following:
- Davis Entertainment into — 20th Century Fox
- Producers into — Screen Gems
- Producers into — Stage 6 Films
- Producers into — Millennium Entertainment
- Producers into — Lakeshore International
- Producers into — Lionsgate
- Producers into — Focus Features
- Producers into — WWE Studios
- Producers into — Paramount Insurge
- Producers into — New Regency Pictures
- Appian Way into — Warner Bros. Pictures & Red Granite Pictures
- Kevin Misher/Misher Films into — MGM
- Broken Road Productions into — Columbia Pictures & QED International
Now, we’re hearing multiple offers are in and that Screen Gems is the highest bidder.
The action thriller spec is definitely riding “The Walking Dead” and “World War Z” success wave. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world and follows a man with the ability to speak the language of the undead. He interrogates zombies with the hopes of finding Patient Zero and a cure for his infected wife.
Mike Le wrote the spec and he’s repped by David Saunders (APA) and Jonathan Hung (Hung Entertainment Group).
We’ll keep you updated as the story unfolds.
