Brendan OBrien

A nurse discovers that a morgue technician has brought her daughter back to life, but must help her obtain biological elements from pregnant women in order to keep her alive.

Jason Mantzoukas looks like a major scene-stealer in Andrew Jay Cohen’s directorial debut, which New Line will release in June.

Soon we’ll be 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 writers who made the Hit List in 2015 — where they were, and how far they’ve come in just one short year.

Universal has acquired a pitch from Neighbors co-writer Brenden O’Brien, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay in a seven-figure deal. The story centers around an escaped convict who attempts to stop his girlfriend from getting married.

Logline: An escaped convict teams up with an unlikely partner to stop his girlfriend from getting married.

Two brothers place an online ad to find dates for a wedding and the ad goes viral.

Mac and Kelly think they’ve reclaimed the neighborhood until they learn that a sorority has moved in next door, and they’re even more out of control than the last neighbors. To get them out, the couple are gonna need help from an ex neighbor.

The comedian and actor will join Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler as they try to operate a suburban casino.

Logline: After blowing their daughter’s college fund, and desperate for cash, a married couple team with their neighbors to open an illegal casino in the suburbs in an attempt to raise the money back.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but is the sequel to the 2014 hit “Neighbors.”

Logline: After blowing their daughter’s college fund, and desperate for cash, a married couple team with their neighbors to open an illegal casino in the suburbs.

Logline: When bullies start dying at a high school’s Senior Night, kids from all different cliques have to band together to find the killer.

Logline: When bullies start dying at a high school’s Senior Night, kids from all different cliques have to band together to find the killer.

When a rowdy fraternity sets up shop in a quiet suburban neighborhood, a young couple is forced to take matters into their own hands and end the frat’s raucous behavior.

When a rowdy fraternity sets up shop in a quiet suburban neighborhood, a young couple is forced to take matters into their own hands and end the frat’s raucous behavior.

When a rowdy fraternity sets up shop in a quiet suburban neighborhood, a young couple is forced to take matters into their own hands and end the frat’s raucous behavior.

When a rowdy fraternity sets up shop in a quiet suburban neighborhood, a young couple is forced to take matters into their own hands and end the frat’s raucous behavior.

Logline: Two brothers turn to the personals in search of wedding dates but when their plus-ones show up, they turn out to be bigger messes than the brothers.

Logline: Two brothers turn to Craigslist to secure dates for a wedding, but their plus-ones turn out to be bigger messes than they are.

Logline: Two brothers turn to Craigslist to secure dates for a wedding, but their plus-ones turn out to be bigger messes than they are.

Logline: Two brothers turn to the personals in search of wedding dates but when their plus-ones show up, they turn out to be bigger messes than the brothers.

Logline: Three long-time friends make a pact to get their wives pregnant at the same time in order to avoid making friends with other new parents.

Logline: In the tone of “Old School,” story follows a guy who lives next door to to a raucous fraternity house, and is forced to take matters into his own hands in order to put an end to it once and for all.