Spec Script Deal: “Porter Rockwell”

Hyperion Media Group acquires period western spec script “Porter Rockwell” written by Antonio Macia. From Deadline:

The Western action-adventure drama is based on Rockwell, the real-life gunslinging bodyguard of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith (and later Brigham Young) who was known as the “Destroying Angel of Mormondom” for his violent ways.

The story is set in the Utah territory during the mid-1800s gold rush. Rockwell, who became a U.S. Deputy Marshal, reluctantly leads a family of prospectors into the mountains, where they are ambushed and he is left for dead. Fueled by vengeance, Rockwell treks through rugged and snowy terrain to hunt down the gang that kidnapped a rebellious young girl.

Macia is repped by Paradigm and Management 360.

By my count, this is the 36th spec script deal of 2016.

There were 35 spec script deals year-to-date in 2015.