Spec Script Deal: “Fragment’

Sony Pictures Entertainment acquires science fiction spec script “Fragment” written by Noah Griffith and Daniel Stewart. From Deadline:

Sony has purchased the spec Fragment, described as “a contained sci-fi thriller” in the vein of Predator meets Lost.

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Stewart is a former Sony employee and left his job in the legal department to join the writers room on The Mist. This is his and writing partner Griffith’s first feature sale. Both will get executive producing credit.

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The feature is based on a short film with the same name that they put together two years ago. The short went viral.

Here is the short:

From the Vimeo site:

Directed by Noah Griffith
Produced by Daniel Stewart
Written by Noah Griffith & Daniel Stewart
Starring William Hoverder

An Air Force jet breaks up over the desert. A mysterious radio beacon draws the pilot from the crash site. A discovery is waiting. And it is not of this Earth.

FRAGMENT was shot in less than 36 hours on a budget of just over $5,000.

Looks like that was five grand well spent!

Griffith and Stewart are repped by CAA and The Gotham Group.

By my count, this is the 22nd spec script deal in 2017

There were 16 spec script deals in 2016.

This represents a 27% increase in deals this year compared to last.