Spec Script Deal: “Samaritan”

Bold Films acquires drama spec script “Samaritan” written by Bragi F. Schut. From THR:

The spec script is set 20 years after an epic battle left a city’s supervillain dead and its superhero missing. On the rough side of town, a young boy befriends the old man across the alleyway and as their relationship develops, the boy comes to believe the man is the hero in hiding. The truth, however, proves to be more shocking than the boy could have ever imagined.

The project has been described as having shades of 2000’s Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan’s grounded take on superheroes that starred Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, and Finding Forrester, the 2000 drama that starred Sean Connery as a reclusive author mentoring a youth with a troubled home life.

Schut is repped by Verve Talent and Literary Agency and Realm.

By my count, this is the 9th spec script deal in 2016.

There were 10 spec script deals year-to-date in 2015.