The author/screenwriter of Blood Father and co-writer of The Town and 12 Strong will adapt the novel that was just released earlier this week.
Peter Craig
In early December, we’re 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 2011 Hit List writers — where they’ve been, and where they are now.
An ex-convict fights to protect his estranged daughter from the drug cartel that is hunting her down, by using connections and skills from a past life.
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Danish filmmaker Nicolai Fuglsig has won the job of directing the Afghanistan war drama Horse Soldiers. The project hails from Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Lionsgate.
In the final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Katniss Everdeen leads a rebellion against the corrupt and the tyrannical Capitol.
In the final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Katniss Everdeen leads a rebellion against the corrupt and the tyrannical Capitol.
After a long wait at Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer is finally making headway with the adaptation of Doug Stanton’s book at Lionsgate.
Jackman is in very early talks to tackle the hero to Troy, Cruel Odysseus
In the final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Katniss Everdeen leads a rebellion against the corrupt and tyrannical city, Capitol. In theaters November 20th.
Broken into two films, the second part of Homer’s epic of Odysseus’ 10-year struggle to return home after the Trojan War. While Odysseus battles mystical creatures and faces the wrath of the gods, his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus stave off suitors vying for Penelope’s hand and Ithaca’s throne long enough for Odysseus to return.
The “Mockingjay” writer re-teams with Jennifer Lawrence for the Steven Spielberg film.
Follows a group of special forces and CIA agents who, after 9/11 secretly invaded Afghanistan on horseback.
Logline: After witnessing her boyfriend murder a man, 17-year-old Lydia finds herself on the run from both sides of the law and is forced to enlist the help of her estranged father, a dangerous member of the Hell’s Angels.
Lolgine: When his long-term mentor dies, an ex-CIA agent leads an elite crew to take on a dangerous banker, only to find out he may have a mole in his team.
“The Town” scribe tapped for crime thriller!
WB action/thriller lands an in-demand scribe!
Logline: After a heist goes wrong, a young man caught in the middle must clean things up and return the moneyhis mentor owes to a dangerous criminal while outrunning a CIA agent.
Paramount finds a new scribe to take over major sequel!
Logline: A divorced mother of two lives with her mother in Texas. She’s trying to deal with the issues in her life when birds start attacking her small town.
Loglime: A runaway teenager carjacks a truck full of dangerous contents and takes the driver hostage to escape a brutal crime.
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Logline: Story focuses on Operacion Jaque, a five-year plan to locate and rescue three Americans who had been captured in 2003 by ruthless Colombian guerilla group FARC.
Logline: After moving to Chicago with his fiancé-to-be, Milwaukee-native Bob Freeman comes to the jaw-dropping discovery that he’s actually Benjamin Sprout, a loving family man who vanished from the Windy City two years earlier after suffering the mother of all blackouts.
English-language remake of the 2009 Canadian film, “De Pere en flic,” written and directed by Emile Gaudreault.
Logline: Kept under wraps.
Logline: A teenage prostitue goes into hiding after killing a gang member and ends up with a trucker hauling deadly chemicals.
Logline: Two cops, a father-and-son team who can’t stand each other, are assigned to an investigation to infiltrate an outdoor adventure group/therapy camp for fathers and sons.
Logline: Follows the bounty hunting crew of the spaceship Bebop, who become entangled with a deadly crime syndicate when the past catches up with one of their own.
Logline: An American submarine commander and a Navy SEAL team must work together to rescue the President of Russia and stop a rising military coup before it’s too late.
