Feeling cast out from society, two teens begin a relationship under the belief that they’re transforming into monsters. What begins as fantasy ends with horrific consequences as they both lose touch with reality.
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In one of the biggest packages we’ve seen so far this year, Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are attached to star in the Max Landis spec Bright, with David Ayer on board to direct. Let the bidding begin…
Logline: In a world where magical creatures live side by side with humans, a human cop is forced to work alongside an Orc to track down a powerful wand that everyone is willing to kill for.
In the near future, a tech billionaire must deal with torture, humiliation, and frightening realizations about his past after his home is breached by a mysterious invader.
Logline: A thief-for-hire is sent on an assignment to steal an unknown package from a laboratory, only to have a crisis of conscience when he discovers upon arrival that the package is actually a superhuman little girl.
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.
Jacqueline Fitzgerald’s comedy script Hooking Up has been set up at McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision, and sources have confirmed that up-and-coming director Nick Weiss is set to direct. Oren Uziel and Sebastian Dungan will also produce.
Logline: A disgraced astronaut embarks on a mission to reach the bottom of a newly discovered oceanic trench, theorized to be the lowest point on planet Earth, and finds himself in a psychological and physical battle against mysterious forces.
David S. Goyer has just picked up buzzy scribe Max Landis’ latest script, the psychological drama Deeper. Goyer will produce under his Phantom Four banner, along with Addictive Pictures. Sources report that Phantom and Addictive beat out others clamoring for the project, as Landis has quickly established himself as a hot, up-and-coming talent.
In a competitive situation, FX has bought the dark comedy crime series Caper from Dutch Southern and Magnus Martens. The series is being described as a Southern Gothic Texas Noir.
Making his feature directorial debut, Oren Uziel is helming his 2009 Black List script that follows a crime investigation backwards from the end to the beginning over the course of a week, and Benjamin Walker is attached to star.
A sheriff tries to solve a botched bank heist in a story that unfolds backwards over a week.
Logline: An underground thief and hacker is unwillingly pulled into a stranger’s personal heist plot.
When a genius finds his world-changing invention used against him, he fights to prevent the destruction of his own life and everyone he loves.
A bargain brand secret agent in charge of stopping mad scientists before they start finds himself in over his head when his new target, bullied genius Olivia Wexler, has attracted the attention of an old enemy.
Logline: When a genius finds his world-changing invention used against him, he fights to prevent the destruction of his own life and everyone he loves.
Described as Life Is Beautiful in tone, adapts the hopeful memoir written by renowned therapist Viktor Frankl nine days after he was released from a three-year imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps.
Logline: A love story, set in Los Angeles, centering on two strangers brought together by a strange offer from an unknown entity: spend two hours together once a week for a year, and they’ll each receive half a million dollars.
The writer of NBC’s “Hannibal” signs on for the upcoming reboot.
Logline: An American woman ventures into Japan’s legendary Aokigahara forest in search of her missing twin sister and meets a man who changes her life, but he’s not who she thinks he is.
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.
Two under-employed twenty-somethings are determined to hook up with each other, but find their efforts repeatedly foiled over the course of one maddening night.
Two under-employed twenty-somethings are determined to hook up with each other, but find their efforts repeatedly foiled over the course of one maddening night.
Logline: Zack Overkill is a former villain in a witness-protection program. A mandated regimen of pills keeps his powers at bay, and an overzealous parole officer keeps his balls busted. But then he finds out that illegal substances restore his powers, freeing him from the drudgery of his job as file clerk and putting him behind a mask again, this time as a good guy.
