Between July 1st and July 31st, 2024, we tracked a total of 5 specs on the market. Granted there was July 4th with plenty of industry folks taking a week off for vacation along with the usual summer vacations and the biennial Summer Olympics, but it still proved to be a quiet month compared to Julys of the past.
The Cartel
Between June 1 and June 30, 2024, we tracked a total of 26 specs on the market – 2 of which were TV pilots. As in February of this year, the total number of specs we tracked was higher primarily due to one management firm’s sizable push into the market.
The Cartel is out with PROJECT NOVA by Nancy Duff. When the country is faced with a biological attack on the water supply, Zoe, a young research assistant for a “Climate Research Facility” finds her employees aren’t exactly what they seem, nor is her reason for….
Between August 1st and August 31st, we tracked a total of 15 feature specs out. This marks the third month in a row where specs have decreased. However, we all predicted the low rate of material out between vacations and productions slowly rolling out.
The Cartel is out with BRING DOWN THE SKY by Chris Wax, Ben Jagger, Dean Jagger, & Dan Luvisi. A benign mission turns into an epic battle between Navy and Air Force.
The Cartel is out with LONG HAUL by Joshua Henson. It’s 1977, the golden age of trucking. The era of Duel, Convoy, and Smokey and the Bandit. Truckers are the new American cowboys. Scott, a long-haul trucker, picks up a runaway girl who, inexplicably, looks exactly like his late wife. Pursued by a mysterious government agent, Scott has to get her cross-country in 24 hours or less. The fate of the Universe is at stake.
Once a tap prodigy, a man must face his past when he meets a dancer heading to law school at his grandmother’s studio.
Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, holds the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter after a sudden global event takes away humankind’s ability to sleep. The question is, can she safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind?
The half-hour, single camera comedy from writers Adam Rose and Scott Shapiro follows a clean urine dealer who has an anger management problem, so the title works on multiple levels.
American distiller and businessman Jack Daniel is getting the small screen treatment as WGN America is in the works on Blood and Whiskey. The drama is based on the life of Daniel and will star Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul.
Logline kept under wraps.
Writing team Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger have been tapped to write Saw: Legacy, the eighth installment of the venerable horror franchise. James Wan, who directed the first Saw back in 2004, will serve as an executive producer on the film.
Life of the project has up until this point only existed rumors and well-wishing, but now the horror threequel is officially in development, with production anticipated to launch in early 2016.
Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox are teaming up for The Cartel, an adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel that centers on the Sonora drug cartel led by the infamous Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Scott is set to direct the project, with a script by Shane Salerno.
Henderson recently worked with Warner Horizon and Bad Robot on the upcoming Hulu series “11/22/63” starring James Franco, and served as a co-executive producer on the series “Graceland”, “White Collar” and “Almost Human”.
Logline: Kept under wraps but pitched as a live-action/CGI hybrid fantasy.
Logline: When a paranormal debunker finds an abandoned subway station build on top of a graveyard, he discovers that the truth might be harder to find than he thought.
Logline: The skeptical Sergent Tubbs teams up with a task force hellbent on destroying the Creeper for good, but the creature fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins.
Logline: When a Machievellian popular girl gets a conscience, she ends up at the bottom of the high school food chain, where she gets comeuppance for her past crimes.
Logline: A woman who, after suffering a fatal head injury, is sent from Purgatory back down to Earth to resolve her ever- present family issues so she is able to earn her way into Heaven.
Logline: Story follows the life of Larry Davis and his infamous trail where he was found not guilty of four murders only to be found guilty in a later murder case and stabbed to death in prison in 2008.
