Spec Script Deal: “16 States”

Lionsgate acquires horror thriller spec script written by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. Via Deadline:

Lionsgate won an auction for 16 States, a thriller scripted by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra (Jungle Cruise, This is Us), to be directed by Fede Alvarez, who helmed the genre hits Don’t Breathe and Evil Dead.

They are keeping plot tight, but think road trip during a zombie pandemic.

And here I thought no one would be interested in a pandemic project.

Requa and Ficarra were repped by their law firm: McKuin, Frankel, & Whitehead.

By my count, this is the 3rd spec script deal in 2020.

There were 9 spec script deals year-to-date in 2019.