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Mike Esola
Logline: Pitched as a high concept sci-fi in the vein of Passengers and Story of Your Life, story centers on the discovery of two humans, suspended in time for 10,000 years, who may hold the keys to humanity’s existence and survival, if the world is ready to listen.
A journalist who unknowingly works for a spy agency is drawn into a tangled web.
Sources say that literary agent Mike Esola, who departed WME last week after a thirteen year stint with the company, is landing at UTA.
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Sources report that lit agent and Mike Esola is leaving WME, after a thirteen-year run. Esola has forged a notable presence in the lit space, representing numerous clients that have made the Hit List, Young and Hungry List, and Black List.
Kept under wraps, but pitched as a heist with elements of fantasy.
A calloused medical actuary is sent to evaluate an exciting new procedure that could cure human disease forever. Little does he know, the operation is far from ordinary, and he will soon be forced to experience human life from an entirely new perspective.
The true story of Vince McMahon’s creation of the WWE empire.
Logline: Centers on a young H.G. Wells, the godfather of science fiction, who actually experiences events that will one day inspire his famous novels.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
UTA, CAA and more fought over Gilberston before WME pulled out all the stops.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but based upon the over the top, high-tech, sci fi military Playstation video game series.
A 2014 LPPC Finalist reps up!
Logline: The socially awkward teenage daughter of a famous robot designer in 2056 designs a “robotic humanoid companion” and attempts to pass him off as her human boyfriend, on the eve of a robot rebellion following a presidential assassination.
Logline: Centers on a policewoman who embarks on a daring game of cat and mouse with a deranged serial killer who arrives in her small beach town over the 4th of July weekend.
Logline: Pitched as a medieval MISSION IMPOSSIBLE with the humor and fun of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY starring Robin Hood & the Merry Men.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but descibed as a sci-fi “Unforgiven”
Logline: Pitched as “Moby Dick” meets “The Hunger Games,” follows a group of middle aged men who go away to summer camp that is rumored to be inhabited by a monster.
Logline: Four friends must face adulthood and the changing nature of their friendship after a haunting encounter during a fishing trip.
And finds offers already on the table.
Logline: Takes a revisionist look at the origins of Saint Nick and Christmas, mixed with Viking mythology.
Logline: Kept under wraps but said to revolve around an epic fist fight between two high school teachers set against the backdrop of the broken-down school system.
Logline: A former Army Ranger is enlisted to infiltrate a dangerous group of ex-Special Forces soldiers living overseas who have revolted against the U.S. government by assassinating confidential informants all over the world.
Logline: Kept under wraps.