Pitch sale: “Reel to Real”
Disney picks up comedy pitch “Reel to Real” from writer Eric Saiet and Andrea Maywhort-Scully:
Disney has preemptively picked up “Reel to Real,” a family fantasy pitch by Eric Saiet and Andrea Maywhort-Scully. The story involves a magical film projector.
Saiet and Maywhort-Scully, based in New York, are newcomers to the screenwriting trade though, in Saiet’s case, not to the industry. He acted as a youngster (his first credit is “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) and has had dozens of TV appearances.
Let’s see. Purple Rose of Cairo. The Last Action Hero. Any other movies where characters go into movies or movie characters come out into the ‘real’ world?
Saiet and Maywhort-Scully are repped by ICM and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
UPDATE: In comments, Keaton78 recommended the classic 1924 Buster Keaton movie “Sherlock Jr.” Here’s a clip: