Escape Artists

Duties include assisting in Film and Television development, reading books and scripts, and research for Film and TV projects.

DJ2 Entertainment & Escape Artists picked up STREETS OF RAGE by Derek Kolstad.

Netflix has picked up UNCOUPLED by Robbie Fox. A couple on the verge of divorce is wrongly accused of murder.

March 2020 came in like a lion and left us with only 16 specs tracked: only 7 with attachments, 5 with a production company, and 1 with a studio. Take a breath, and let’s dive in.

Escape Artists out with WE ARE THE PEOPLE by Aaron Nee & Adam Nee. A Pasadena family’s Fourth of July is disrupted by a cloud of ash that drives neighbors and relatives into a ranting, violent rage. Separated, struggling to survive, the family members ultimately reunite and manage to uncover the solution that restores everyone to sanity.

Read about the 24 specs tracked in February 2020: 7 with a studio or production company attached; 12 with producers; 7 with directors; & 5 with talent attached.

Logline: The world’s deadliest assassin and New York’s biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other in a rented Airbnb. Now they are forced to team up and save the day but will they survive each other?

Logline: Two young Secret Service agents get stuck with protecting the president’s black sheep son and have to rescue him when he is kidnapped whileon a trip abroad.

Follows a young woman dating in Los Angeles.

The true story of Wendy Davis’s 11 hour filibuster in the Texas Senate to prevent the passing of a bill that would restrict abortion rights in Texas.

Authorized and co-produced by Lucie and Desi Arnaz, Jr., the project is still negotiating with Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett to play the role of Ball during her years married to Desi Arnaz.

Details the friendship between Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky, the unraveling of which led to the first impeachment of a United States President in 130 years, and launched the modern era of clickbait journalism.

When his business partner, and frontman for their firm, has a sudden heart attack, a hard-nosed liberal lawyer starts to uncover a web of unsettling things their crusading firm has been involved in. As the trail of lies goes deeper, his existential crisis turns into extreme action.

An ex-French Special Forces soldier suffering from PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he is out of town.

Logline: Details the friendship between Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky, the unraveling of which led to the first impeachment of a United States President in 130 years, and launched the modern era of clickbait journalism.

McG is currently in talks in taking the reins of the movie based on the Mattel toy line about He-Man, a prince that becomes a powerful warrior via his magical sword to defend the land of Eternia against the villainous Skeletor.

The hot new spec The Virginian from writer Michael Russell Gunn is making its way into every major studio in town. In the tone of Braveheart and The Patriot, the story follows the life of George Washington.

Blanchett will play the comedienne and Sorkin will write the script.

This biopic follows the life of one of television’s greatest comedians.

The He-Man script is getting another pass from Christopher Yost

The story of 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, who kept a journal of life-lessons for the son he never met. King was killed in Baghdad one month shy of finishing his tour of duty.

Logline: The United States uses their most advanced drones to battle terrorists in this remake of the 1983 actioner of the same name.

A round-up of the week’s TV News!

LOGLINE: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Pitched as “Saving Mr. Banks” meets “Nebraska,” centers on a young screenwriter who collaborates on a screenplay with F. Scott Fitzgerald at the low point in his career.

Logline: Twin brothers with opposite personalities are separated at a young age and go on to live drastically different lives, eventually being reunited in an effort to save the company ‘Rocket Cola’ despite their love of the same woman.

Logline: Twin brothers with opposite personalities are separated at a young age and go on to live drastically different lives, eventually being reunited in an effort to save the company ‘Rocket Cola’ despite their love of the same woman.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A University Of Michigan star football player’s dreams are destroyed after a shoulder injury, leading him to become the unlikely coach of an ammeter team in China, turning them into a championship team.

Logline: Based on the true story of a cyber security blogger who exposes a major crime involving hundreds of thousands of credit cards being stolen.