Spec Script Deal: “Smoke on the Water”

Thunder Road acquires action spec script “Smoke on the Water” written by Trey Callaway and Rick Parks. From Tracking Board:

Details are being kept under wraps, but the story is set in the world of offshore boat racing, open water drug smuggling and the U.S. Coast Guard–exploring the “nautical narcotic highway” from Cuba to Key West.

The angle for the project is to launch a new action franchise centering on what has now become a high-tech world of drug trafficking off the Florida coast–with an emphasis on the cinematically untapped world of Cuba, which presents fascinating new possibilities in light of the softening of the U.S.’s embargo policies.

Callaway is repped by CAA and Rain Management Group.

Parks is repped by Silvera Management.

By my count, this is 3rd spec script deal of 2016.

There were 6 spec script deals year-to-date in 2015.