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Title:         Joan of Bark: the Dog that Saved France
Log Line:  Described as a satire about pop culture.
Writer:      David Mamet
Agent:       Jeff Berg at ICM and atty. Stan Coleman of Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Silverman & Holmes
Buyer:       Columbia Pictures
Price:         n/a
Genre:       Satire
Logged:     6/2/04
More:         John Calley will produce.   Mamet will direct as well. Will Ferrell will star.

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Threads about bad spec scripts make me sad!

.ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

They gave away my secret identity as Vincent Price! Oh no!

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Title:       The Wife's Away
Log line: A bored husband gets more than he bargained for when his wife leaves him alone for the weekend.
Writer:    Mike Reiss
Agent:     Jordan Bayer of Original Artists
Buyer:     DreamWorks
Price:       Mid-six figures
Genre:     Comedy
Logged:   5/12/04
More:       Spec script. Adam Goodman will oversee the project.

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

No more!

.ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been going through these for the last hour, laughing my ass off.

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Title:         Super Ex
Log Line:   A man discovers that the woman he's dating is a superhero and then decides to break up when she becomes too needy and manipulative. She then uses her superpowers to turn his life into a living nightmare.
Writer:       Don Payne
Agent:       n/a
Buyer:       Regency Enterprises
Price:        n/a
Genre:       Comedy
Logged:     12/13/04
More:        Spec script.  Pariah's Gavin Polone will produce.

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I posted this one somewhere else, but it's so cool

Title:        Snakes on a Plane
Log line:  An assassin unleashes lethal snakes aboard a packed passenger jet over the Pacific Ocean in order to eliminate a witness in
protective custody. The rookie pilot and frightened passengers must band together to survive.
Writer:     John Heffernan and David Loucka
Agent:      Ben Smith of ICM (Heffernan) and Matt Leipzig of Original Artists (Loucka)
Buyer:      New Line Cinema
Price:        n/a
Genre:      Thriller
Logged:    6/28/04
More:        C/W Productions' Don Granger will produce.  Ronny Yu will direct.  Project was originally set up at MTV Films.

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! That's the best title ever. So not-misleading.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

SNAKES ON A PLANE!@@!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

after the climactic finale the surviving cast opens up the overhead bins to get their luggage and one of them opens up to reveal.. the bespectacled nebbish that we haven't seen since the first reel, squinting and blinking in the sunlight

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

and then a snake jumps out and bites his neck! blackout, closing credits

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Title:        Abdurahman Khadr Story
Log Line:  A young boy is groomed to become a terrorist because his father is a member of Bin Laden's inner circle. As the young man matures, he becomes increasingly disillusioned with Al Qaeda, resulting in rebelliousness, attempts to run away and repeated refusals when his father attempts to get him to become a suicide bomber.  He escapes the compound after 9/11, is captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and is recruited by the CIA as an informant at Guantanamo Bay, where he is placed among prisoners in an attempt to gain Al Qaeda secrets. He is later sent to Bosnia by the CIA to infiltrate Al Qaeda's recruitment efforts and was due to be sent to Iraq before deciding to blow his cover by contacting a relative in Canada.
Writer:      n/a
Agent:      Jennifer Gates and Sandra Shagat of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth
Buyer:      Vincent Newman Entertainment
Price:       Mid- to high-six figures
Genre:      Action Thriller
Logged:    1/10/05
More:       Life rights of 21-year-old Abdurahman Khadr.  Vincent Newman Entertainment's Vincent Newman will produce.  No writer or director is attached yet.

:| (....), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Re The Wife's Away, Mike Reiss writes/wrote for The Simpsons. It'll prob. still suck, tho.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Title: Abraham Lincoln Project
Log Line: President Abraham Lincoln steers the North to victory in the Civil War.
Writer: Paul Webb
Agent: n/a
Buyer: DreamWorks
Price: n/a
Genre: Drama
Logged: 1/12/05
More: Based on the biography "The Uniter: The Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Steven Spielberg will direct. Liam Neeson will star. Rights to the book acquired in March 2001.

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

As of yesterday I read somewhere that Liam Neeson is only "in talks" to star.

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Title: Step in the Name of Love
Log Line: Set in the world of steppin', centers on a Chicago-bred derivative of swing dancing.
Writer: Craig Brewer
Agent: n/a
Buyer: MGM
Price: n/a
Genre: Urban
Logged: 12/1/04
More: Rewrite. Original script written by Carl Seaton and Kenny Young. Stephanie Allain and Urban Entertainment's Michael Jenkins will produce. Usher, Jonetta Patton and Holly Davis-Carter will executive produce. Phil James, Nichelle Protho and Yalda Uhls will co-produce. ***Usher will star in.*** First set up in May 2004.

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 20 January 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Title:         Easy Rider A.D.
Log Line:  Set years later, Wyatt "Captain America" Earp is alive but in prison, falsely accused of the murder of George Hanson.  A "new character" tries to prove Wyatt's innocence.
Writer:      Sean Jacques
Agent:       Paul Kohner Agency
Buyer:       Lloyd Entertainment
Price:         n/a
Genre:       Drama
Logged:     9/27/02
More:         Sequel to the 1969 film Easy Rider.   Lauren Lloyd will produce.   Glenn Tobias will fund the film's development and produce.

:| (....), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no way any of these are for real!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Easy Rider A.D. has been touted for a while.

.ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but they are.

xpost

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Coming soon, from the makers of SNAKES ON A PLANE, the gut-wrenching, action-packed sequel SPIDERS IN THE OATMEAL.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

VAMPIRE BATS ON A CRUISE-LINER

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Toads on a Wet Sprocket!

Huk-L, Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

MALLRATS 2: DIE HARD IN A MALL

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

RATS ON THE UNDERGROUND
oh wait...

jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 20 January 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

LESBIAN VAMPIRES ON THE TITANIC

the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, how miraculously prescient of me!

http://www.seductioncinema.com/2000/T2000/images/box_T2000.jpg

the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

therw also a "collector's edition" available.

the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Thursday, 20 January 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...
Title:        One Missed Call
Log Line:  A college student fails to answer a cell phone call because she doesn't recognize the caller's ringtone. Later, when she plays the message, the time stamp is three days in the future and she hears her own voice as she's being killed.

Title:         Generation S.L.U.T. (Sexually Liberated Urban Teens)
Log Line:   Centers on the promiscuity and emotional detachment among contemporary teenagers and their unnerving contemporary attitudes toward gun violence, sexual assault, parenting and suicide in a brutal high school social scene.

Title:        Untitled Sean Hayes Comedy
Log Line:  A social misfit seems like he'll finally be free of his domineering mother, until her soul leaps into his body right after her fatal accident.

Title:        The Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Log Line:  A high school girl finds a sense of purpose after joining a radical feminist group.


Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds cool:


Title: Yours, Mine and Ours
Log Line: Two single parents, one with 10 children and one with eight, fall in love and elope but have to contend with the kids' attempts to sabotage their union.
Writer: Ron Burch, David Kidd, Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir
Agent: Chris Silbermann of BWCS (Burch and Kidd) and Sandy Weinberg of Summitt Talent & Literary & mngr. Paul Nelson of Mosaic Media Group (Hilgenberg and Muir)
Buyer: MGM and Paramount Pictures
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy
Logged: 1/21/05
More: Remake. Robert Simonds will produce. Raja Gosnell is in negotiations to direct. Dennis Quaid will star.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kids hate unions.

Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, that one looks kinda okay! Like EXTREME BRADY BUNCH or something!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

A college student fails to answer a cell phone call because she doesn't recognize the caller's ringtone. Later, when she plays the message, the time stamp is three days in the future and she hears her own voice as she's being killed.

What would've happened if she'd answered the phone?

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Title: Untitled Sean Hayes Comedy
Log Line: A social misfit seems like he'll finally be free of his domineering mother, until her soul leaps into his body right after her fatal accident.

SEE HE'S NOT GAY IN THIS ONE, HE JUST HAS AN EFFEMINATE SOUL!!

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

That's the sequel.
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Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Title: Shoot-Em-Up
Log Line: A mysterious man must protect a newborn baby from criminals who want to kill it.

WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY TO ME!?!?

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

KILLING BABEES = TEH FUN!

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Title:        Abdurahman Khadr Story
Log Line:  A young boy is groomed to become a terrorist because his father is a member of Bin Laden's inner circle. As the young man matures, he becomes increasingly disillusioned with Al Qaeda, resulting in rebelliousness, attempts to run away and repeated refusals when his father attempts to get him to become a suicide bomber.  He escapes the compound after 9/11, is captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and is recruited by the CIA as an informant at Guantanamo Bay, where he is placed among prisoners in an attempt to gain Al Qaeda secrets. He is later sent to Bosnia by the CIA to infiltrate Al Qaeda's recruitment efforts and was due to be sent to Iraq before deciding to blow his cover by contacting a relative in Canada.
Writer:      n/a
Agent:      Jennifer Gates and Sandra Shagat of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth
Buyer:      Vincent Newman Entertainment
Price:       Mid- to high-six figures
Genre:      Action Thriller
Logged:    1/10/05
More:       Life rights of 21-year-old Abdurahman Khadr.  Vincent Newman Entertainment's Vincent Newman will produce.  No writer or director is attached yet.

i actually basically wrote this exact script. But, uhh, as a comedy. With psychics.

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, I hadn't heard about this one!


Title: Coach Snoop
Log Line: A rapper learns to be a good father through coaching his son's youth football team.
Writer: Mark Gibson and Philip Halprin
Agent: William Morris Agency and atty. Warren Dern
Buyer: 20th Century Fox
Price: $1 million
Genre: Drama Comedy
Logged: 12/10/04
More: Pitch. Based on Snoop Dogg's real-life experiences. The pitch was part of a bidding war. Mandeville Films' David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman will produce. Snoop Dogg will executive produce. Snoop Dogg will star in.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Title: The Krazees
Log Line: A repressed psychologist, unable to deal with his daughter hitting puberty, has his emotions manifest as CGI characters. As they wreak havoc on his life, the psychologist is forced to team up with the only other person who can see them and the one person with whom his relationship is most strained: his daughter.
Writer: Derek Guiley and David Schneiderman
Agent: ICM, mngr. Ilan Breil at LMRK and law firm Stone, Meyer & Genow
Buyer: Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies
Price: n/a
Genre: Comedy Fantasy
Logged: 1/25/05
More: To be adapted from the preschool book written by Sam Swope and illustrated by Eric Brace. Robin Williams will star and will also lend his voice to the CGI creatures.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

and this is basically the best blog ever: http://queryletters.blogspot.com/ very very relevant here.

this is one of the longest query letters i've ever seen, but it's really funny:

This story tells the answers to why and where the great pyramids came from and tells it through an adventure ride through time. It begins in the year 2365. "In the shadows of a maximum security government research base, a bald feeble looking man appears instantaneously 20 feet above the ground where he floats in free space for a fraction of a moment and then slams to the ground shattering his leg. The man cautiously drags himself through the yard of the facility, until he finds a window to a basement. He breaks the window and while climbing inside he picks up a piece of the jagged glass and takes it with him. He makes his way to an old, musty storage room and struggles to dig his way to the bottom of a junk pile where he finds an empty storage crate. The man rips out a handful of hair from his chest and jams it into a plastic bag that he found buried in an old fermenting trash can. He then tunnels himself to the bottom of the crate and gashes his wrists with the glass to his quick painful death."

The story then shifts another 75 years into the future. The same man is with a group of scientist. They are experimenting with time travel and believe they can send object back in time, but they have no way to return them to the present. They decide to send one person through. The goal is to have the man save DNA and then kill himself. He does so, and when they find his DNA, they use cloning to bring him back to life and he has a full memory of everything. That is how they travel back into the future.

The world is at war and there is much despair. The team of 8 scientists decide to all go back into time to four different periods. Each team has a mission to change the outcome of the world. The first three teams that are traveling must accomplish their tasks and then make it possible for the other teams to find their DNA. The first team goes back 4000 years to develop the first civilization. This is the reason for the Pyramids and the hidden tombs. In the tombs they find jars with body organs and other DNA that have survived 4,000 years. Teams two and three go back in time 1,000 years and 500 years respectively and team three is responsible for many changes in the world. They also leave very interesting clues about who they are and how their friends can find their DNA.

This story takes a wild ride back and forth over 4,000 years. It involves love, excitement, exploration and it even brings a possible answer to many unexplained phenomenons through out history. In the end, all but two of the team members are found and the world is, as it is today."

firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Imagine the tagline:

The feel-good family movie of the year, starring... Snoop Dogg

(x-post)

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Coach Snoop looks cool!

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude has timing. Comedic timing that is.

Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm not saying it couldn't be good, it's just that the whole idea is kinda... weird.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

But it's based on the true story of Snoop Dogg coaching his kid's football team!

Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Boy what a title!


Title: Run, Fat Boy, Run
Log Line: A charming but oblivious overweight guy leaves his fiancée on their wedding day only to discover years later the he really loves her. To win her back, he must finish the New York marathon while making her realize the her new handsome, wealthy fiancé is the wrong guy for her.
Writer: Michael Ian Black
Agent: UTA and manager Ted Schacter
Buyer: Gold Circle Films
Price: n/a
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Logged: 8/27/04
More: Beech Films' Alexa Fogel & Joseph Infantolino and Gold Circle Films' Paul Brooks will produce. David Schwimmer will direct.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Writer: Michael Ian Black

aka Johnny Bluejeans!

Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Ian Black! From The State!

How many movies can come out using the Run, _____, Run title template though?

xpost!!!!!11

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm not so sure about going with Run, Zombie, Run as the title for the zombie movie script I was writing. :(

nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Mudhoney submitted a song called "Run, Shithead, Run" for the soundtrack to some Brendan Fraser (or was it Joe Pesci? the two have inexplicably become one in my mind) movie.

Huk-L, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)


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