Spec Script Deal: “Our Lady of Guadalupe”

MGM acquires religious drama spec script “Our Lady of Guadalupe” written by Joe Eszterhas. From Deadline:

The visitation of the Virgin Mary in a small town in Mexico and the subsequent push by a humble man named Juan Diego to get a temple erected in her name is being brought to the big screen, courtesy of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas and Roma Downey and Mark Burnett’s LightWorkers Media. Known as the Virgen de Guadalupe or Our Lady of Guadalupe the story is well-known and the site is revered throughout the world as sacred, but especially in Mexico and Latin American countries where the painted image of her surrounded by light and roses has become a symbol of faith.

This marks a considerable departure in genre and tone from the many spec script projects Eszterhas sold in the early to mid-90s including Basic Instinct and Jagged Edge, plus many more scripts he wrote for big bucks which never got produced like ‘Foreplay,’ ‘Gangland’, and ‘Original Sin’.

Eszterhas is repped by ICM Partners and LINK.

Who knows? Maybe this deal will usher in the resurrection of a time when spec scripts reigned.

By my count, this is the 14th spec script deal in 2017.

There were 11 spec script deals year-to-date in 2016.