Spec Market Recap - Week of 10/12/2009

Spec Market Recap - Week of 10/12/2009
by Jason Scoggins
October 21, 2009

Interesting see-saw effect over the past couple of weeks: It was slow the week of the 27th (4 scripts), then super busy the week of the 5th (17 scripts), and slow again last week (5 scripts).  This week is proving pretty slow again -- only six scripts out as of the end of the day Tuesday.

Feels good to be caught up.  On to the Spec Market Scorecard. Lots of data to crunch...


10/15/2009

THE ART OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY
Writer: Nathan Dewitt
Reps: CEC (Will Rowbotham) and New School Media (Brian Levy)
Log: There is danger afoot, nature is out of balance. Yet the world rests at ease knowing Hemingway Barnes has already saved them, most likely. But this time, the world’s greatest adventurer, and damn handsome man, has been captured – bound at the whim of a madcap geneticist bent on commanding an army of animals – and there is only one man who can save him: his only son…..who doesn’t even know he exists.
Notes: Trackingb.com has who's taking it in where.

COWGIRL BANDITS
Writer: Michael Tabb
Reps: WME (Elia Infascelli) and Kaplan/Perrone (Sean Perrone)
Log: A young THELMA & LOUISE. (One of Trackingb.com's commenters provided a more detailed logline.)
Notes: Writer is repped by APA (Ryan Saul) and Justin Silvera Management (Justin Silvera). Leighton Meester and Amber Heard attached to star; Jessica Manafort attached to direct (repped by Perrone); Paul Schiff producing.


10/13/2009

THE PLAN
Writer: Vik Weet
Reps: Abstract Entertainment (Mike Goldberg & Josh Adler)
Genre: Horror
Log: A group of four horror-buffs, who years ago playfully outlined the perfect plan for surviving a zombie attack, must come together and put their plan into action when a virus spreads, turning the infected into vicious monsters. In the vein of 28 DAYS LATER.


10/12/2009

HELL’S ACRE
Writers: Damian Nieman & Shane Clark
Reps: APA (David Boxerbaum)
Genre: Horror
Log: In the vein of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and HALLOWEEN with a dash of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, HELL’S ACRE spins the true story of "The Bloody Benders" - a family of twisted and perverse German immigrants who confined and butchered nearly two dozen people over three months in their cabin lair just outside of Cherryvale, Kansas before they mysteriously disappeared.
Notes: Out to select producers.

MAN UP
Writers: James Leary, Mike Meredith & Kirk Pynchon
Reps: The Pitt Group (Garth Friedrich)
Genre: Comedy
Log: A clueless, chauvinistic family man who can't relate to women makes a wish that causes all of the ladies in his life to start acting like men, which causes havoc in his life.
Notes: John Tantillo producing, looking to partner. TrackingB.com has who's taking it in where.