“Initially my mind went to a Horror movie, which I’ve heard the Uber horror pitch many, many times… So I thought what’s the Action/Comedy version?” – Good Fear Content’s Jake Wagner joins us for the latest installment of Anatomy of a Sale. Jake walks us through one of his own concepts, which would plant the seeds for STUBER written by Tripper Clancy.
Jake Wagner
We are joined by Jake Wagner of Good Fear Content, who takes us through the in’s and out’s of one of the biggest spec sales in history – SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN from writer Evan Daugherty. The project, which was initially written during Daugherty’s time at NYU, would go on to launch his career, land him a spot on both the Hit List and Black List, and garner nearly $400 Million at the box office.
A woman with a troubled past takes in her moody teenage niece to live in the family’s isolated farm house, but the two are soon tempted and tormented by a sinister creature that can take their pain away for a price.
Three siblings are stalked by a masked killer after they become stranded on a country river.
Story details are being kept under wraps.
Fresh off her Top 25 placement in the 2018/19 Launch Pad Features Competition, Christina Pamies has signed with Jake Wagner and Scott Stoops of Good Fear Film + Management.
Congratulations to three-time Launch Pad Alum John Wikstrom whose Hit List / Black List script AMA: ASK ME ANYTHING has attached Zelda Williams to direct with Assemble Media’s Jack Heller producing.
Story details are being kept under wraps, but described as a contained thriller with a big sci-fi twist.
As his new spec AMA: Ask Me Anything goes out to the town, Launch Pad Alum John Wikstrom has signed with Verve, Romark Entertainment and Good Fear Film + Management.
A highly publicized AMA (Q&A) Session between a fast-rising publicist and an aging music icon quickly turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse when the event is seized by a hacker who systematically begins revealing dark secrets from both of their pasts, forcing them to publicly confront the horrific events they’ve committed on the largest social media platform in the world.
Pitched as being tonally in the vein of The Big Short, this is the unknown true story of how the NRA pivoted in the 1970s from being an innocuous organization promoting gun safety into the most powerful political force in American history.
A misanthropic man notices bizarre changes in himself, his wife, and the animals inhabiting the territory around their homestead as they attempt to survive self-imposed isolation.
Marooned on his ship billions of miles from earth, a lonely astronaut on the verge of starvation reprograms the computer AI system to digitally look & sound like a beautiful call girl. With death around the corner she is his only companion – until a rescue team shows up with questionable intentions.
Nico van den Brink’s short follows a woman who learns that her neighbors — a mother and her two kids — have been killed. That would be enough to freak out anyone, but when she continues to hear the children running around and laughing, she really starts to get the creeps.
A new spec on classic princesses has hit the market and it’s a take on princesses like you have never seen before. Written by Nir Paniry and appropriately titled Princesses, the movie is being pitched as a female-driven Avengers starring all the classic princesses.
Kept under wraps, but being pitched as a female-driven Avengers starring all of the classic princesses.
All hell breaks loose for a family when an augmented reality game called Revelation (think Pokemon Go or Ingress) is revealed to not be a game at all, but a very real tool for summoning demons into our world.
Logline: Story details being kept under wraps, but pitched as “Don’t Breathe” meets “The Shallows” with an alligator.
Torn apart by tragedy, two estranged sisters are forced to reunite and confront their differences after one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility.
Launch Pad alum Matthew Tente, whose spec Burn Run is heating up the town this week, marks the first official signing for Chris Bender’s newly formed Good Fear.
Logline: An American mercenary team hired to escort a 20-ton heroin seizure across war-torn Afghanistan gets caught up in a botched drug deal when their leader goes rogue, and allies suddenly become enemies. Three Kings meets Mad Max.
Noah Hawley will be making his feature directorial debut with Man Alive. The spec from first-time scribe Joe Greenberg was acquired by 20th Century Fox in a six-figure deal.
Some sort of deadly virus destroys many people, while a Man and some other survivors try to remain alive.
McKinnon may be headed back to high school, as the actress is in talks to star in Senior Year. The CBS Films comedy comes from the 2015 Hit List script by Andrew Knauer and Arthur Pielli.
Everyday average Uber driver Stu has his world turned upside-down when a hard-nosed detective (who just had Lasik), needs him to drive him across the city in pursuit of the man who killed his former partner.
Logline: Everyday average Uber driver Stu has his world turned upside-down when a hard-nosed detective (who just had Lasik), needs him to drive him across the city in pursuit of the man who killed his former partner.
Logline: After an alien consciousness takes over the minds of every human but one, the lone outsider must navigate a shaky truce with the alien hive mind, soon learning that there may be another person out there like him – someone with bad intentions.
Lars Klevberg’s new horror short, Polaroid, gets picked up for a feature adaptation after winning best short at the LA Horror Competition. Klevberg is attached to direct the adaptation.
Two instagram-obsessed girls unlock a deadly spirit when they try to take a selfie with an old Polaroid camera.
Stagliano made the 2015 LPPC Semi-Finals with his Peter Pan reinvention Neverland. Stagliano is the 78th writer signed in just the first two years of the Launch Pad Competition!
