Between August 1st and August 31st, we tracked 17 new feature specs hot out of Final Draft. 3 of them have some type of attachment, while 1 is reported to have sold that was previously out in 2021 (more on that spec later). That brings our total count of specs with attachments up to 4. This marks a 23% decrease in specs from July, and a 26% drop off from June. How the year has been shaping up, August has turned over some fairly better numbers than anticipated.
David Coggeshall
Apple Original Films & Skydance Productions picked up THE FAMILY PLAN by David Coggeshall. A former assassin living as a suburban dad is forced to take his unsuspecting family….
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.
Story details are being kept under wraps but is described as an action thriller that takes place on a space station.
Described as Argo in tone, the story centers around a secret mission in which a CIA agent convinces a Tibetan scholar to sneak into Tibet to enlist the help of the Dalai Lama to keep communism from taking over the continent of Asia.
Logline: Described as Argo in tone, the story centers around a secret mission in which a CIA agent convinces a Tibetan scholar to sneak into Tibet to enlist the help of the Dalai Lama to keep communism from taking over the continent of Asia.
Logline: A woman returns to the town where she first started experiencing visions in hopes of getting to the bottom of the phenomenon.
Logline: A boy is sent to an uninhabited island as part of a “corrective course,” but soon discovers that the island is inhabited–and dangerous.
Story centers on the Wyrick family, as the move into a new home, and begin to experience horrifying supernatural events.
Logline: One man fights to reverse an experiment gone wrong that puts the entire planet in peril.
Logline: Based on the science fiction cult hit from 1985, a man survives a global experiment gone wrong. He must now destroy the system to reverse the effect while fighting for his life amongst other survivors.
Logline: A woman, who has been battling a supernatural force all her life, discovers a link between it and her new husband.
Just in time for Halloweeen, industry manager Kailey Marsh has revealed the top choices for the 2009 Blood List!
Logline: Story centers on the Wyrick family, as the move into a new home, and begin to experience horrifying supernatural events.
Logline: Story tells of the mythical figure of Bloody Mary, a bogeywoman of sorts who snatches the souls of children.
Logline: Centers on Alyssa Hale who is confined to a psychiatric ward, joins forces with her psychiatrist to break the curse that has plagued her family for generations.
